[Dovecot] Installation of Dovecot

[Steven F Siirila]

When I configure Dovecot to conform to our directory hierarchy, it insists
on adding 'dovecot/' to the prefixes I specify.  Is there any way to
inhibit this?

My configure command is:

./configure --prefix=/opt/dovecot --sysconfdir=/etc/opt/dovecot \
	    --libexecdir=/opt/dovecot/libexec --localstatedir=/var/opt/dovecot \	    --without-sql-drivers --with-ssl=openssl \
	    --with-ssldir=/etc/opt/dovecot

My problem is with the resulting directories:

/opt/dovecot/libexec/dovecot	is used instead of	/opt/dovecot/libexec
/var/opt/dovecot/lib/dovecot	is used instead of	/var/opt/dovecot/lib
/var/opt/dovecot/run/dovecot	is used instead of	/var/opt/dovecot/run

It seems that Dovecot assumes that libexecdir and localstatedir refer to
non-Dovecot-specific directories, and adds 'dovecot/' to the path.
Is there any way to avoid this?

In our environment )we use:
	/opt/XXX	Optional software XXX
	/etc/opt/XXX	Configuration for optional software XXX
	/var/opt/XXX	Variable data for optional software XXX
(Which makes for easier upgrades)

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