Hi,
On Wed, Jun 29, 2022 at 08:33:19PM +0200, Mark Wielaard wrote:
> Hi Frank,
>
> On Wed, Jun 29, 2022 at 01:29:04PM -0400, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote:
> > > In both profile.csh.in and profile.sh.in we set and then unset
> > > prefix, but never use it.
> >
> > It is used, because the autoconf @sysconfdir@ macro expands to a
> > string like "$prefix/...", which requires the shell variable $prefix
> > to be set.
>
> O, I see. Indeed the default is '${prefix}/etc'. But I never saw that
> because in a package install configure is called with everything
> expanded [*]. Should have tried by hand.
This is not the first time when a patch removing these definitions of
"prefix" variable is proposed. In fact, I applied a similar patch in my
tree last year because I always use --sysconfdir=/etc and "prefix" is a
very generic name so I prefer not to tamper with it in profile scripts.
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