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List:       gentoo-dev
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-dev] econf's localstatedir default doesn't match GNU suggestions
From:       Ulrich Mueller <ulm () gentoo ! org>
Date:       2012-01-28 6:07:27
Message-ID: 20259.37023.36248.611661 () a1i15 ! kph ! uni-mainz ! de
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>>>>> 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 to /usr/local whereas ours
defaults to /usr. So the default localstatedir would be /usr/local/var
or /usr/var, respectively. While the former may make some sense, the
latter doesn't (and it violates the FHS).

> Not that it's a big deal to add

>   src_configure()
>   {
>     econf --localstatedir="${EPREFIX}"/var
>   }

> to an ebuild, but the missmatch is odd. [...]

That's not the same, the equivalent of $(prefix)/var is not
"${EPREFIX}"/var but "${EPREFIX}"/usr/var.

> [1]: http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Directory-Variables.html
> [2]: http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/autoconf-2.63/html_node/Site-Defaults.html

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