On Donnerstag, 28. August 2008, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Aug 28, David Zeuthen <david@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > If you don't pass any special options (such as prefix=/), the behavior > > of putting device nodes in /usr/local/dev is indeed correct (it's useful > > for e.g. debugging udev without screwing up the real /dev). > > This really looks like an excuse for an autoconfiscation bug. > I have been maintaining an udev package for over four years and I never > dreamt of rebuilding it with a different value of udev_root just for > testing. > It's much easier to set $UDEV_ROOT when debugging instead of forcing > every package maintainer to set $prefix. The gentoo package now calls configure with these params: --prefix=/ --includedir=/usr/include The only thing I explicitly patched is the path to the pkgconfig file. I think it should be in /usr/lib/pkgconfig and not in /lib/pkgconfig. Regards Matthias -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-hotplug" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html