On second thought, I think the point A.1 and A.2 has to be changed and merged to one: On Thu, May 05, 2011 at 04:45:40PM +0200, Johannes Sixt wrote: > A: > > 1. ./configure --prefix=dir1 and dir1 != /usr > > git_etcdir = etc > > 2. ./configure --prefix=/usr > > git_etcdir = /etc 1. ./configure --prefix=dir1 git_etcdir = /dir1/etc Otherwise there would be a conflict with: ./configure --help --sysconfdir=DIR read-only single-machine data [PREFIX/etc] -- Kacper Kornet -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html