From: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
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: Wed, 22 May 2024 08:30:01 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87frua3u7q.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ttit3n11.fsf@gnu.org> ("Ludovic Courtès"'s message of "Sun, 19 May 2024 16:16:10 +0200")
Hi Ludovic,
Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:
> Hi Maxim,
>
> Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> skribis:
>
>> The Guix standard configuration uses a localstatedir of /var and a sysconfdir
>> of /etc. To ease things for everyone, make the default values match that
>> standard expected configuration. See
>> <https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2024-05/msg00003.html> for a
>> related discussion.
>>
>> * configure.ac: Default $prefix to '' unless already set.
>> * doc/contributing.texi (Building from Git): Streamline doc.
>> * doc/guix-cookbook.texi (Guix environment via direnv): Likewise.
>>
>> Change-Id: I23cd12b58a842d246fbc9fdc740311c573eb0212
>
> [...]
>
>> +dnl Set some sane default directory variables for use with the Guix. This
>> +dnl also causes localstatedir to be /var and sysconfdir to be /etc.
>> +test "$prefix" = NONE && prefix=
>
> Shouldn’t it read “prefix=/”?
This is what I went for originally, but it would cause this error:
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
configure: error: chosen localstatedir '//var' does not match that of the existing installation '/var'
Installing may corrupt /gnu/store!
Use './configure --localstatedir=/var'.
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
So it seems Autoconf's generated configure script expects --prefix to
*not* contain a trailing '/', which is the case for --prefix=/.
> Might be good to check whether this breaks “make distcheck”, so I
> suppose it should be fine.
Good suggestion; I just tested the target and the tarball was
successfully generated.
> Apart from that it LGTM. Thanks for this patch!
Thanks for reviewing it! I'll send a v2, and wait for further comments,
if any.
--
Maxim
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-05-22 12:48 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 [this message]
2024-05-23 9:17 ` Ludovic Courtès
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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