On Wed, 2012-03-21 at 15:46 +0200, Timo Sirainen wrote: > On 21.3.2012, at 15.26, Noel Butler wrote: > > > The purpose of any build scripts --sysconfdir is to tell the > > configuration to build in a path for its binaries configuration file(s). > > > > Dovecot 2.1.3, seems to insist that that directory is now /etc/dovecot/ > > ignoring --sysconfdir=/etc as in 1.2.x and previous majors before that, > > is this a bug? if not, then I see no point of sysconfdir any more and it > > should be removed, if dovecot deliberately ignores what it is told to > > use. > > > --sysconfdir=/etc uses /etc/dovecot/ > > --sysconfdir=/opt/dovecot/etc uses /opt/dovecot/etc/dovecot/ > > There is now always the dovecot/ suffix, but the the /etc part is still > configurable. >
perhaps it should be renamed then, given it violates the known normal
for SYSCONF dir, you've just created another form of --datadir
from gnu.org:
"sysconfdir"
The directory for installing read-only data files that pertain
to a single machine–that is to say, files for configuring a
host. Mailer and network configuration files, ‘/etc/passwd’, and
so forth belong here. All the files in this directory should be
ordinary ASCII text files. This directory should normally be
‘/usr/local/etc’, but write it as ‘$(prefix)/etc’. (If you are
using Autoconf, write it as ‘@sysconfdir@’.)
"datadir"
The directory for installing idiosyncratic read-only
architecture-independent data files for this program. This is
usually the same place as ‘datarootdir’, but we use the two
separate variables so that you can move these program-specific
files without altering the location for Info files, man pages,
etc.
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