From: Mark Wielaard <mark@klomp.org>
To: "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@redhat.com>
Cc: elfutils-devel@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] config: Remove unnecessary setting/unsetting of prefix in profiles
Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2022 20:33:19 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Yrya71faJRnAIGdz@wildebeest.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220629172904.GB30593@redhat.com>
Hi Frank,
On Wed, Jun 29, 2022 at 01:29:04PM -0400, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote:
> > In both profile.csh.in and profile.sh.in we set and then unset
> > prefix, but never use it.
>
> It is used, because the autoconf @sysconfdir@ macro expands to a
> string like "$prefix/...", which requires the shell variable $prefix
> to be set.
O, I see. Indeed the default is '${prefix}/etc'. But I never saw that
because in a package install configure is called with everything
expanded [*]. Should have tried by hand.
Patch retracted.
Thanks,
Mark
[*] --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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-06-29 18:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-06-29 16:48 Mark Wielaard
2022-06-29 17:29 ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2022-06-29 18:33 ` Mark Wielaard [this message]
2022-06-29 20:08 ` Dmitry V. Levin
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