[Dovecot] Default dirs in ./configure?

Johan 'yosh' Marklund yosh at yosh.se
Sun Jan 4 04:49:08 EET 2009


Isn't /usr/local/ the default to prevent collisions with dist. provided
files?

/yosh

Peter Lindgren skrev:
> Hi!
> 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.
>
> (and yes, I know I set them with
>   --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var --sharedstatestatedir=/var
> )
>
> /Peter



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