On Fri, Feb 12, 2021 at 11:04:59AM -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> I don't recall if this has come up before, but I suggest a couple of changes
> to the default util-linux build configuuration:
>
> 1. Change the default ADJTIME_PATH to be /var/lib/hwclock/adjtime
Good idea. I'll do that.
> 2. Change the references to /var/run to just /run or at least add a
> configure option --runstatedir=<path>.
The current default is /run if --localstatedir is NONE or /var, see
configure.ac:
# default for old versions without $runstatedir
AS_IF([test x"$runstatedir" = x], [runstatedir='${localstatedir}/run'])
# our default if $localstatedir unchanged
AS_CASE([$localstatedir:$runstatedir],
[NONE:'${localstatedir}/run' | /var:'${localstatedir}/run' | NONE:'/run' ],
[runstatedir=/run; AC_MSG_NOTICE([ --runstatedir defaults to /run])]
)
AC_SUBST([runstatedir])
Try it without an option:
$ ./configure
...
configure: Default --exec-prefix detected.
configure: --bindir defaults to /bin
configure: --sbindir defaults to /sbin
configure: --libdir defaults to /lib64
configure: --runstatedir defaults to /run
the @runstatedir@ should be available since autoconf 2.70
https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Directory-Variables.html
but not sure about the option.
For example for Fedora we use:
./configure --build=x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu \
--host=x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu --program-prefix= \
--disable-dependency-tracking --prefix=/usr --exec-prefix=/usr \
--bindir=/usr/bin --sbindir=/usr/sbin --sysconfdir=/etc \
--datadir=/usr/share --includedir=/usr/include --libdir=/usr/lib64 \
--libexecdir=/usr/libexec --localstatedir=/var \
--sharedstatedir=/var/lib --mandir=/usr/share/man \
--infodir=/usr/share/info \
--with-systemdsystemunitdir=/usr/lib/systemd/system \
--disable-silent-rules --disable-bfs --disable-pg --enable-chfn-chsh \
--enable-usrdir-path --enable-write --enable-raw --enable-hardlink \
--with-python=3 --with-systemd --with-udev --with-selinux --with-audit \
--with-utempter --disable-makeinstall-chown
and it also defaults to /run because of --localstatedir=/var
> Currently this change can be manually made by setting an environment
> variable, runstatedir=/run when running configure, but is undocumented.
The current default should be already good enough for usual use-cases :-)
Karel
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