From: Christopher Allan Webber <cwebber@dustycloud.org>
To: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Removing the need for ./configure --localstatedir=/var ?
Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2017 12:02:43 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bmmm30iq.fsf@dustycloud.org> (raw)
Every now and then I rebuild Guix and hit the problem where I run
./configure and then I am reminded that I need to instead do:
./configure --localstatedir=/var
IIRC this is because of GNU standards about default paths and pretty
much no other reason that we don't default to /var. But I think Guix is
a special case.
Should we ask maybe for an exception? There's no reason for users to
bump into this. It's annoying even for me, and at least I know (or
think I do) why.
- Chris
next reply other threads:[~2017-09-07 17:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-09-07 17:02 Christopher Allan Webber [this message]
2017-09-07 19:14 ` Removing the need for ./configure --localstatedir=/var ? Efraim Flashner
2017-09-10 21:10 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-09-12 1:18 ` Christopher Allan Webber
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