In regard to: Re: gnucash configuration, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said (at 2:51pm on...:
>It's been rumoured that Matthew Condell said:
>>
>> It's been rumoured that Dave Peticolas said:
>> > Anyway, in looking into these things, I noticed
>> > that we have a config variable GNC_CONFIGDIR
>> > which we really aren't using. There is a note
>> > in Makefile.in to the effect that it ends up
>> > being /etc/gnucash and that this is a bad place
>> > to put config files. Why is that? Seems like
>> > a fine place to put config files.
>>
>> And linas responded:
>> >3) /etc is a kind-of old-fashioned place to put global config files.
>> > A slightly newer-fangled place is /usr/share/gnucash ...
>>
>> On FreeBSD the preferred place for config files is /usr/local/etc
>> Maybe we should be able to set the config directory using configure
>> arguments. (or can that already be done?)
>
>Ugh. In some ways, configure is a real can of worms. If you say
>configure --prefix=/usr
>then gnucash gets installed in /usr/bin, and so on. If you don't
>say --prefix then the default is /usr/local/.. and so on. Ugh.
>I am not sure just how to fix this.
AC_PREFIX_PROGRAM(guile)
would cause configure to default to using the same prefix that it finds
`guile' under. If you think some other program is more appropriate to use
as our "key" for what *default* prefix to use, use that instead.
Otherwise, you could steal the `--with-layout=<foo>' code from Apache, and
come up with different layouts to match what people want.
Tim
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