On Wed, 2012-03-21 at 15:46 +0200, Timo Sirainen wrote:
On 21.3.2012, at 15.26, Noel Butler wrote:
The purpose of any build scripts --sysconfdir is to tell the configuration to build in a path for its binaries configuration file(s).
Dovecot 2.1.3, seems to insist that that directory is now /etc/dovecot/ ignoring --sysconfdir=/etc as in 1.2.x and previous majors before that, is this a bug? if not, then I see no point of sysconfdir any more and it should be removed, if dovecot deliberately ignores what it is told to use.
--sysconfdir=/etc uses /etc/dovecot/
--sysconfdir=/opt/dovecot/etc uses /opt/dovecot/etc/dovecot/
There is now always the dovecot/ suffix, but the the /etc part is still configurable.
perhaps it should be renamed then, given it violates the known normal for SYSCONF dir, you've just created another form of --datadir
from gnu.org:
"sysconfdir"
The directory for installing read-only data files that pertain
to a single machine–that is to say, files for configuring a
host. Mailer and network configuration files, ‘/etc/passwd’, and
so forth belong here. All the files in this directory should be
ordinary ASCII text files. This directory should normally be
‘/usr/local/etc’, but write it as ‘$(prefix)/etc’. (If you are
using Autoconf, write it as ‘@sysconfdir@’.)"datadir"
The directory for installing idiosyncratic read-only
architecture-independent data files for this program. This is
usually the same place as ‘datarootdir’, but we use the two
separate variables so that you can move these program-specific
files without altering the location for Info files, man pages,
etc.