On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 06:50, Matthias Schwarzott <zzam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 Huh? Why? Let prefix stay as usr, as usual, and set exec-prefix, as suggested in INSTALL. Just take a look at autogen.sh. Kay -- 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
