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Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2022 20:33:19 +0200
From: Mark Wielaard <mark@klomp.org>
To: "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] config: Remove unnecessary setting/unsetting of prefix
 in profiles
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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