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List:       cyrus-devel
Subject:    Re: 3.0.0-beta2 configure bug
From:       qyb via Cyrus-devel <cyrus-devel () lists ! andrew ! cmu ! edu>
Date:       2016-06-03 7:18:55
Message-ID: CACxcJcRmyYhHDYsuabOCS-5SVm6de4Cux5LC2P_gM8RhoTicDA () mail ! gmail ! com
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Thanks.
I found that
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2007-01/msg00071.html,
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2007-01/msg00075.html have
described this workaround

On Fri, Jun 3, 2016 at 8:36 AM, ellie timoney via Cyrus-devel <
cyrus-devel@lists.andrew.cmu.edu> wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 2, 2016, at 02:48 AM, qyb via Cyrus-devel wrote:
>
> ./configure --help says "--sysconfdir=DIR        read-only single-machine
> data [PREFIX/etc]"
>
> "sysconfdir" should set to "{prefix}/etc" in Makefile, but it set to
> "/etc".
>
>
> The choice to default it to "/etc" rather than "${prefix}/etc" is
> deliberate, for historical compatibility.  But the standard --sysconfdir
> option is honoured if you wish to override it.  (Commit c185645, November
> 2003.)
>
> The help text for --sysconfdir is provided by autotools, not by us.
>  "[PREFIX/etc]" is wrong for our case, but I don't know of a way to
> override it with our own text.  Does anyone else?
>

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<div dir="ltr">Thanks.<div>I found that <a \
href="https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2007-01/msg00071.html">https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2007-01/msg00071.html</a>, \
<a href="https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2007-01/msg00075.html">https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2007-01/msg00075.html</a> \
have described this workaround<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div \
class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jun 3, 2016 at 8:36 AM, ellie timoney via Cyrus-devel \
<span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:cyrus-devel@lists.andrew.cmu.edu" \
target="_blank">cyrus-devel@lists.andrew.cmu.edu</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote \
class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc \
solid;padding-left:1ex"><u></u>




<div><span class=""><div>On Thu, Jun 2, 2016, at 02:48 AM, qyb via Cyrus-devel \
wrote:<br></div> <blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div>./configure --help says \
&quot;--sysconfdir=DIR            read-only single-machine data \
[PREFIX/etc]&quot;<br></div> <div>  </div>
<div>&quot;sysconfdir&quot; should set to &quot;{prefix}/etc&quot; in Makefile, but \
it set to &quot;/etc&quot;.<br></div> </div>
</blockquote><div>  </div>
</span><div>The choice to default it to &quot;/etc&quot; rather than \
&quot;${prefix}/etc&quot; is deliberate, for historical compatibility.   But the \
standard --sysconfdir option is honoured if you wish to override it.   (Commit  \
c185645, November 2003.)<br></div> <div>  </div>
<div>The help text for --sysconfdir is provided by autotools, not by us.   \
&quot;[PREFIX/etc]&quot; is wrong for our case, but I don&#39;t know of a way to \
override it with our own text.   Does anyone else?<br></div> </div>

</blockquote></div><br></div>



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