Re: Xconq 7.3 branch created!

[Roland Roberts <roberts at panix dot com>]

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>>>>> "Stan" == Stan Shebs <shebs@shebs.cnchost.com> writes:

    Stan> Studying the sources closely, it looks to me like
    Stan> $prefix/com is more of a historical oddity that has never
    Stan> seen actual use - if it had, it would have run head-on into
    Stan> the problem of read-only /usr filesystems, and yet the docs
    Stan> don't even mention this little difficulty.

It may be.  I'm not sure who ever uses $prefix/com but it certainly
used to be used.  Emacs used to use it for storing it's lock files,
but I don't know where it originated.  Nonetheless, sharedstatedir and
localstatedir are really the "right" places to put this
information....

    Stan> Our problem here is that autoconf works contrary to the FHS
    Stan> standard, and by extension, to the Linux Standard Base.

I'd have to pull down the Apache source to see how they fixed this.
They do have a way to pull in an entire set of directory tweaks to put
things where they are "supposed" to go and which directory tweaks gets
used is based on an autoconf switch.  That might be more flexible (and
elegant, too).

roland
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