[Dovecot] Default dirs in ./configure?

[Timo Sirainen]

On Jan 3, 2009, at 9:18 PM, Peter Lindgren wrote:

> I try to build a new 1.1.7 installation. Since I'm not a large  
> sysadmin, just my own private mail server admin, I just wonder why  
> the sysconf and state dirs defaults to $prefix? Maybe I'm old- 
> school, but isn't /etc and /var, respectively, a better default  
> than /usr/local? Should require two new variables in the configure  
> script, though.

I think it's pretty much a standard to place all the files under  
$prefix by default. It's also useful in some cases. For example I  
don't have root access to the server where my mails are located, so I  
just build Dovecot (and many other software) with --prefix=$HOME and  
everything works nicely.