[Dovecot] LOCALSTATEDIR

Radomir Zoltowski radomir.zoltowski at s3group.com
Mon Aug 25 18:03:19 EEST 2008


Hi

I'm doing a network install of Dovecot 1.1.2. All is fine apart from a 
little annoying mistake I've found:

I do this:
 > ./configure --prefix=/appli/tools_Linux/dovecot/1.1.2 
--localstatedir=/var && make && make install

however, since the --localstatedir is equal to a default value, it is 
still being constructed as "PREFIX/var" for some reason and in effect 
produces binary with following strings being built-in:

 > strings dovecot | grep var
/appli/tools/dovecot/1.1.2/var/lib/dovecot
/appli/tools/dovecot/1.1.2/var/run/dovecot
/appli/tools/dovecot/1.1.2/var/lib/dovecot/ssl-parameters.dat
 /appli/tools/dovecot/1.1.2/var/lib/dovecot/ssl-parameters.dat
var-expand.c
var_expand_table_build

So, the question is, is this a bug or my understanding wrong? I just 
need a network install, using local /var directiories for runtime data. 
Imagine that I have no write permissions to the installation (--prefix) 
folder.

If you can reproduce it, this should be it, if you can't let me know to 
email you all the environment details.

Regards,
Radomir Zoltowski
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