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From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>
Cc: Simon Tournier <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com>,
	Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant@debian.org>,
	Richard Sent <richard@freakingpenguin.com>,
	71022@debbugs.gnu.org, Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il>,
	Florian Pelz <pelzflorian@pelzflorian.de>,
	Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>,
	Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr>,
	Attila Lendvai <attila@lendvai.name>,
	Matthew Trzcinski <matt@excalamus.com>,
	Janneke Nieuwenhuizen <janneke@gnu.org>
Subject: [bug#71022] [PATCH] configure.ac: Set default value for the 'prefix' variable.
Date: Thu, 23 May 2024 11:17:17 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87cypcc2g2.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87frua3u7q.fsf@gmail.com> (Maxim Cournoyer's message of "Wed, 22 May 2024 08:30:01 -0400")

Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> skribis:

>> Shouldn’t it read “prefix=/”?
>
> This is what I went for originally, but it would cause this error:
>
> configure: error: chosen localstatedir '//var' does not match that of the existing installation '/var'
> Installing may corrupt /gnu/store!
> Use './configure --localstatedir=/var'.
>
> So it seems Autoconf's generated configure script expects --prefix to
> *not* contain a trailing '/', which is the case for --prefix=/.

Oh I see, makes sense.

Thanks,
Ludo’.




  reply	other threads:[~2024-05-23  9:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-05-17 23:52 [bug#71022] [PATCH] configure.ac: Set default value for the 'prefix' variable Maxim Cournoyer
2024-05-19 10:42 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2024-05-22  0:16   ` Maxim Cournoyer
2024-05-19 14:16 ` Ludovic Courtès
2024-05-22 12:30   ` Maxim Cournoyer
2024-05-23  9:17     ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2024-05-22  0:24 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2024-05-22 12:51 ` [bug#71022] [PATCH v2] " Maxim Cournoyer
2024-05-23  9:17   ` Ludovic Courtès
2024-05-26  3:38     ` bug#71022: " Maxim Cournoyer

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