'./configure --prefix=/usr' put /etc directory in /usr/etc

[sputnick-dev]

$ wget https://github.com/HeyuX10Automation/heyu/archive/v2.11-rc2.tar.gz
$ tar zxvf archive/v2.11-rc2.tar.gz
$ cd heyu-2.11-rc2/
$ ./configure --prefix=/tmp/usr
$ make
$ make install
$ find /tmp/usr
/tmp/usr
/tmp/usr/etc
/tmp/usr/etc/heyu
/tmp/usr/etc/heyu/x10.sched.sample
/tmp/usr/etc/heyu/x10config.sample
/tmp/usr/share
...

As you can see, /etc should not be in */usr/etc but /etc

(/tmp is there for debug purpose, feel free to strip it)

[jkrzyszt]

Please try:
./configure --prefix=/tmp/usr --sysconfdir=/etc
You can also run sh ./Configure.sh instead.
More info can be found in README file.

Thanks,
Janusz

[sputnick-dev]

Ok, it works, but this is the first time (for 10 years as dev/sysadmin) I see an application that install /etc files elsewhere than /etc. Seems not standard...

[jkrzyszt]

Please have a look at this discussion:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2007-01/msg00069.html

Thanks,
Janusz

[sputnick-dev]

AFAIK, this seems quite non standard.

To be able to have each part where it should, I finally wrote :

  ./configure --localstatedir=/var --mandir=/usr/share/man --enable-postinst=./post-install.sh --sysconfdir=/etc --prefix=/usr
  make

https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=heyu

[jkrzyszt]

AFAIK, this seems quite non standard.

If still not convinced, please have a look at the relevant section of GNU Coding Standards document:
https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/standards.html#Directory-Variables

./configure --localstatedir=/var --mandir=/usr/share/man --enable-postinst=./post-install.sh --sysconfdir=/etc --prefix=/usr
make

That's pretty similar to what sh Configure.sh --prefix=/usr would do for Linux.

https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=heyu

Thanks a lot for packaging Heyu for Arch Linux !!!
Janusz

[jkrzyszt]

Correcting myself:

./configure --localstatedir=/var --mandir=/usr/share/man --enable-postinst=./post-install.sh --sysconfdir=/etc --prefix=/usr
make

That's pretty similar to what sh Configure.sh --prefix=/usr would do for Linux.

That actually doesn't work that way, sorry. Configure.sh itself doesn't accept Autoconf specific options. Being a wrapper over configure, it mimics behaviour of Heyu historical (pre-Autoconf) Configure script. For Linux that means /usr/local prefix is used.

Either use Configure.sh with traditional Heyu directory layout, or fine tune it up to your needs by calling configure with your preferred options directly.

Thanks,
Janusz