Dear Dovecot,

I have noticed that when you pass a --prefix in to the configure script and say specify a path of /local/dovecot-2.2.6 that when you install most of the subdirectories (etc, lib, include, libexec,etc) have a dovecot directory in them, like if you were installing to /. This is not typical of most *nix software. So I tried to specify the exact location with the following configure options, but they are not honored when it comes to installation. I have looked through the configure script to see if I can see where the problem is and can not see it. These are the ones that do not work. Some of the others, however to work.

# Do not work --sysconfdir=/local/dovecot-2.2.6/etc
--libdir=/local/dovecot-2.2.6/lib
--includedir=/local/dovecot-2.2.6/include
--libexecdir=/local/dovecot-2.2.6/libexec \

# Do work --docdir=/local/dovecot-2.2.6/share/doc
--with-ssl=openssl --with-ssldir=/local/dovecot.2.2.6/ssl
--with-statedir=/local/dovecot-2.2.6/lib
--with-moduledir=/local/dovecot-2.2.6/lib
--with-rundir=/run/dovecot

Bret

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