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

Alex Merry alex.merry at kde.org
Thu Sep 18 19:13:04 UTC 2014


On 2014-09-17 22:42, Thiago Macieira wrote:
>> 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.

We may not need to, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't be providing sane 
defaults.

Alex


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