<div dir="ltr">On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 04:28, Sebastian Harl <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sh@tokkee.org">sh@tokkee.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi,<br>
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On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 01:38:00PM -0600, Boian Berberov wrote:<br>
> OK. But how does your example work? I think in Gentoo it would have to be:<br>
> ./configure --prefix=${custom_prefix} --localstatedir=${custom_prefix}/bar<br>
<br>
</div>No, you'd still use --localstatedir='${prefix}/bar'. ${prefix} will be<br>
used in the configure script and Makefile and thus evaluated at compile<br>
time which allows you to set a new prefix without recreating the build<br>
environment.<br>
<br>
Please note that you don't _have_ _to_ use that syntax but it's<br>
recommended for the above mentioned reasons.<br>
<br>
As a side-note: --localstatedir='${prefix}/foo' was a pretty bad<br>
example. Usually, Linux distributors set prefix to '/usr' and<br>
localstatedir to '/var' to comply with the FHS. However, ${prefix} is<br>
used e.g. in -mandir='${prefix}/share/man'.<br>
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> Also, localstatedir defaults to [PREFIX/var] according to ./configure<br>
> --help, so that particular case should be covered for var.<br>
<br>
</div>Right - see above ;-)<br>
<br>
HTH,<br>
Sebastian<br>
<br>
PS: Please don't use top-posting style [1] - that usually breaks<br>
readability a lot. Thanks!<br>
<br>
[1] <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Top-posting" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Top-posting</a><br>
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<br></blockquote></div><br>Let me illustrate exactly what happens on Gentoo. The econf function used by ebuilds makes this call:<br>
./configure --prefix=/usr --host=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
--mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --datadir=/usr/share
--sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var/lib --localstatedir=/var
<plugin-enables> ...<br>
<br>
The second "--localstatedir=/var" is an override I have to put in.
Since prefix is set to /usr, the end result in the collectd.conf file
without the patch to that file is:<br>
...<br>
#BaseDir "/usr/var/lib/collectd"<br>
#PIDFile "/usr/var/run/collectd.pid"<br>
...<br>
<br>
With the patch it is:<br>
...<br>
#BaseDir "/var/lib/collectd"<br>
#PIDFile "/var/run/collectd.pid"<br>
...<br>
<br>
Setting prefix to "/" will install everything else in root. Do you
have any suggestion on how I can set this up without the patch? Of
course it can always be maintained externally.<br>
<br>
There is also sysconfdir, but I need to look at making another patch about ssl first.<br><br>
Boian Berberov</div>