[Dovecot] Issues with configure script / Makefile

[Bret Jordan]

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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