configure --sysconfdir=/.. broken

[Andreas Schwab]

Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.de> writes:

|> >>>>> Andreas Schwab writes:
|> 
|>  > Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.de> writes:
|>  > |> Or how can we fix this?  We could initialize libc_cv_sysconfdir to
|>  > |> sysconfdir instead of leaving it empty as it's done now - but this way
|>  > |> the user can't override libc_cv_sysconfdir when using --prefix=/usr
|>  > |> and I don't see directly how we can check if the user has used the
|>  > |> prefix.
|> 
|>  > If prefix = NONE then --prefix wasn't used.  This is true until AC_OUTPUT
|>  > is called.
|> 
|> Hi Andreas,
|> 
|> I don't understand what you suggest.  
|> 
|> Imagine the following configure lines:
|> - configure --prefix=/usr -> sysconfdir will be /etc
|> - configure --sysconfdir=/etc -> no prefix, sysconfdir should be /etc
|>   but is indeed currently /usr/local/etc
|> - configure --prefix=/test --sysconfdir=/etc -> sysconfdir gets set to
|>   /test/etc

How about this:

if test $sysconfdir = '${prefix}/etc'; then
  libc_cv_sysconfdir=/etc
else
  libc_cv_sysconfdir=$sysconfdir
fi

Andreas.

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