From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christopher Allan Webber Subject: Removing the need for ./configure --localstatedir=/var ? Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2017 12:02:43 -0500 Message-ID: <87bmmm30iq.fsf@dustycloud.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:35727) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dq0Cc-0005cw-Hk for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Sep 2017 13:02:59 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dq0CX-0003zA-K5 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Sep 2017 13:02:54 -0400 Received: from dustycloud.org ([50.116.34.160]:42134) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dq0CX-0003y6-GY for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Sep 2017 13:02:49 -0400 Received: from oolong (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dustycloud.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 52DE7266E7 for ; Thu, 7 Sep 2017 13:02:44 -0400 (EDT) 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" To: guix-devel@gnu.org 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