I'll try again with debian-mentorS!!!
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Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 18:48:21 +1100
From: Timshel Knoll <timshel@debian.org>
To: "Wesley W. Terpstra" <terpstra@javien.com>
Cc: debian-mentor@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Installing files in /etc
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On Fri, Oct 20, 2000 at 10:09:27AM -0600, Wesley W. Terpstra wrote:
> Timshel Knoll <timshel@debian.org>, wrote:
> > Try:
> > ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc
> >
> > and then
> >
> > $(MAKE) install prefix=`pwd`/debian/tmp/usr sysconfdir=`pwd`/tmp/etc
> >
> > $(sysconfdir) is auto{conf|make}'s /etc directory.
>
> The problem with this method is that when a non-debian user downloads the
> source and does ./configure && make install, their config files end up in
> /usr/etc by default which is not what I wanted. The debian directory is
> going to be part of the upstream source archive, so can't interfer with
> normal installation.
This wouldn't be wrong. What would normally happen if the user doesn't
give a parameter to ./configure is that binaries install under
/usr/local/bin, libraries under /usr/local/lib and config files under
/usr/local/etc, which is the correct way to do it to stay with the FHS.
All you need to do is specifically specify --sysconfdir=/etc to build
debian packages - all stuff that the user compiles themselves should
automatically install under /usr/local ...
> re: DESTDIR -- it's not used in the Makefile.in. I also can't find it in
> 'info autoconf' or the html manual...
Wierd. I have seen DESTDIR in all the autoconf/automake stuff I've seen,
maybe try a newer version of autoconf/automake ... all my Makefile.in's
have:
DESTDIR =
somewhere in them.
> Thanks a lot for your help, btw.
>
No probs :)
> --
> Wesley W. Terpstra <terpstra@javien.com>
> Javien Canada Inc. - Linux Developer
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