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I'm curious abotu why econf uses |
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"${EPREFIX}"/var/lib |
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for the default value of localstatedir, when the GNU coding standards |
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[1] and autoconf site default examples [2] both suggest |
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$(prefix)/var |
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Not that it's a big deal to add |
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src_configure() |
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{ |
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econf --localstatedir="${EPREFIX}"/var |
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} |
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to an ebuild, but the missmatch is odd. I did some digging through |
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the history of both Portage and PMS, but didn't find anything clear. |
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PMS has had that value as the default since |
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commit a686e410fd4d20f1d67b1c991936de78379d00c1 |
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Author: Stephen Bennett <spb@g.o> |
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Date: Tue Mar 6 18:44:21 2007 +0000 |
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Add build commands section based on pioto's patch. Add a TODO |
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command using the fixme package, and change todiscuss to use this |
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too. Possibly other misc changes. |
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which is not very informative on it's own. Portage has had the value |
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since |
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commit d9fc4acc572c6647a4f27b838d35d27d805d190e |
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Author: Jason Stubbs <jstubbs@g.o> |
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Date: Sun Aug 28 08:37:44 2005 +0000 |
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Migration (without history) of the current stable line to subversion. |
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Also not very helpful. |
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Anyhow, there is obviously a good deal of history here. Looking |
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through the ebuilds of packages on my system that do have something in |
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`/var/lib`, it looks like they either don't use autoconf |
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(e.g. sys-apps/portage), hardcode the path (i.e. avoid using |
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localstatedir, e.g. app-admin/eselect and app-crypt/mit-krb5) or |
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override the value in their own ebuilds (e.g. x11-base/xorg-server) |
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$ equery belongs -n /var/lib | while read LINE; do \ |
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ATOM="${LINE%% *}"; \ |
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grep -c localstatedir "/usr/portage/$ATOM/"*.ebuild; done |
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Is this one of those things that's too baked in to be worth changing, |
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or is this just too peripheral to have bothered anyone else? |
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Thanks, |
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Trevor |
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[1]: http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Directory-Variables.html |
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[2]: http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/autoconf-2.63/html_node/Site-Defaults.html |
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