4 Jan
2009
4 Jan
'09
2:06 p.m.
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.