[PATCH] Install config files

[Carlos O'Donell]

On 02/24/2014 05:43 AM, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:
>    > Correct order is for `make install [DESTDIR=...]' to not touch
>    > SYSCONFDIR.
> 
>    No.  The files are part of glibc, so they are supposed to be
>    installed.
> 
> This is not going forward.  It has nothing to do with glibc being
> special, it has to do with plain old semantics for how `make install'
> works across all GNU projects -- and that is not to modify existing
> files in SYSCONFDIR.

I have to agree with Andreas Schwab here.

Is this described in the GNU Maintainers guide? I've never seen
such a requirement.
 
> What is wrong with `make install-sysconf' or even putting them in
> DATADIR?  If they are so special and should not be modifed, then they
> should go under DATADIR, but if they are meant to be modified by a
> human then they should not be overwritten.

It's an extra target and code we don't need.

Cheers,
Carlos.