3.0.0-beta2 configure bug

qyb qiuyingbo at gmail.com
Fri Jun 3 03:18:55 EDT 2016


Thanks.
I found that
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2007-01/msg00071.html,
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2007-01/msg00075.html have
described this workaround

On Fri, Jun 3, 2016 at 8:36 AM, ellie timoney via Cyrus-devel <
cyrus-devel at lists.andrew.cmu.edu> wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 2, 2016, at 02:48 AM, qyb via Cyrus-devel wrote:
>
> ./configure --help says "--sysconfdir=DIR        read-only single-machine
> data [PREFIX/etc]"
>
> "sysconfdir" should set to "{prefix}/etc" in Makefile, but it set to
> "/etc".
>
>
> The choice to default it to "/etc" rather than "${prefix}/etc" is
> deliberate, for historical compatibility.  But the standard --sysconfdir
> option is honoured if you wish to override it.  (Commit c185645, November
> 2003.)
>
> The help text for --sysconfdir is provided by autotools, not by us.
>  "[PREFIX/etc]" is wrong for our case, but I don't know of a way to
> override it with our own text.  Does anyone else?
>
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