Re: [gentoo-dev] econf's localstatedir default doesn't match GNU suggestions

2012-01-27 Thread Ulrich Mueller
> On Fri, 27 Jan 2012, W. Trevor King wrote: > I'm curious abotu why econf uses > "${EPREFIX}"/var/lib > for the default value of localstatedir, when the GNU coding > standards [1] and autoconf site default examples [2] both suggest > $(prefix)/var Right, and their $(prefix) defaults t

Re: [gentoo-dev] econf's localstatedir default doesn't match GNU suggestions

2012-01-27 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Friday 27 January 2012 16:21:21 W. Trevor King wrote: > I'm curious abotu why econf uses > > "${EPREFIX}"/var/lib my understanding is that from our sampling of packages over time, it seemed more common for upstream to expect this to be a path where they would dump state into. so if we use