From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: The tricky case of "--localstatedir=/var" Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2016 23:11:40 +0100 Message-ID: <87k2l0oiub.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20160216135729.GB13560@novena-choice-citizen.lan> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38715) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1agg8x-0004ux-91 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Mar 2016 18:11:48 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1agg8t-0006mW-2Q for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Mar 2016 18:11:47 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20160216135729.GB13560@novena-choice-citizen.lan> (Jookia's message of "Wed, 17 Feb 2016 00:57:29 +1100") List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Jookia <166291@gmail.com> Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Jookia <166291@gmail.com> skribis: > Over the past month a few people (myself included) have been hit by the '= gotcha' > of not running ./configure with "--localstatedir=3D/var". As discussed on IRC, the expected default values are specified in . I think it=E2=80=99s reasonable to keep following these rules. However, for the purpose of avoiding bad surprises (configuring Guix with the wrong localstatedir), I thought we could have a =E2=80=98configure= =E2=80=99 check that would compare the chosen localstatedir with the current installation=E2=80=99s localstatedir, and bail out if they don=E2=80=99t ma= tch. WDYT? Thanks, and apologies for the delay! Ludo=E2=80=99.