Review Request 120246: Set CMAKE_INSTALL_SYSCONFDIR to /etc when CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX is /usr

Thiago Macieira thiago at kde.org
Wed Sep 17 21:42:45 UTC 2014


> When installing to /usr, we should use /etc for configuration. Using
> /usr/etc does not make sense.

That's the default for autoconf too.

Every single packager that sets the prefix to /usr knows to set sysconfdir to 
/etc too. You don't need to do this.
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