l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > Jookia <166...@gmail.com> skribis: > >> Over the past month a few people (myself included) have been hit by the >> 'gotcha' >> of not running ./configure with "--localstatedir=/var". > > As discussed on IRC, the expected default values are specified in > <http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Directory-Variables.html>. > I think it’s reasonable to keep following these rules. > > However, for the purpose of avoiding bad surprises (configuring Guix > with the wrong localstatedir), I thought we could have a ‘configure’ > check that would compare the chosen localstatedir with the current > installation’s localstatedir, and bail out if they don’t match.
IMO this is the right way to handle this issue. -- Mathieu Lirzin
