On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 3:38 AM, Harlan Stenn <stenn@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Eric Blake writes: >> On 11/16/2014 11:51 PM, Harlan Stenn wrote: >>> One installation directory choice I haven't found a good solution to >>> is the ntp.conf file, which is traditionally installed in /etc/ . If >>> there is an ntp.keys file, it will usually go in /etc/ as well. >>> >>> In general, folks want the config-related files to be in /etc/ even >>> if they install the binaries in /usr/local. >>> >>> While I'd like to use sysconfdir for this I'm concerned about the >>> hackery I'd need to do to make it work as we expect. >> >> sysconfdir IS the solution you are looking for. A distro will run: >> >> =2E/configure prefix=3D/ sysconfdir=3D/etc >> >> and things will just work. > > Eric, it needs more than that. We might be able to do it with: > > --prefix=/ --exec-prefix=/usr/local --sysconfdir=/etc > > but that won't work because that also affects datarootdir, includedir, > localstatedir, and sharedstatedir. I need sysconfdir to be $DESTDIR/etc > and all of the others to use $DESTDIR/usr/local/XXX . > What is wrong with --prefix=/usr/local --sysconfdir=/etc With prefix=@prefix@ sysconfdir=@sysconfdir@ datarootdir=@datarootdir@ includedir=@includedir@ localstatedir=@localstatedir@ sharedstatedir=@sharedstatedir@ in Makefile.in, and AC_INIT AC_CONFIG_FILES([Makefile]) AC_OUTPUT in configure.ac, running "./configure --prefix=/usr/local --sysconfdir=/etc" gives the following in Makefile: prefix=/usr/local sysconfdir=/etc datarootdir=${prefix}/share includedir=${prefix}/include localstatedir=${prefix}/var sharedstatedir=${prefix}/com which are the values you want. _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf