Timo wrote:
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.
Yes, my production servers are configured like this.
Not a big issue, but I always dislikes the additional "dovecot" subdirs if dovecot is configured that way. Although the additional subdirs are unusual (compared with most other software products), I can see that these subdirs are useful for configurations like --prefix=/usr/local or --prefix=/usr.
But within a special account and using --prefix=$HOME these are superfluous:
$ find -name dovecot
./include/dovecot
./libexec/dovecot
./lib/dovecot
./share/doc/dovecot
./bin/dovecotI prefer (in this case!): ./include ./libexec ./lib ./share/doc ./bin
It would be great if I could suppress these additional "dovecot" subdirs during configure with something like --without-dovecot-subdirs.
Ok, minor issue but as the subject came up...
Regards, Heiko.
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