[avahi] Installation on SuSE 10.0

[Sebastien Estienne]

On 2/20/06, Lennart Poettering <lennart at poettering.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 20.02.06 21:05, Peter Onion (Peter.Onion at btinternet.com) wrote:
>
> >
> > On Mon, 2006-02-20 at 20:17 +0100, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> > > On Mon, 20.02.06 18:17, Peter Onion (Peter.Onion at btinternet.com) wrote:
> > >
> > > >
> > > > On Mon, 2006-02-20 at 00:45 +0100, Sebastien Estienne wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > you could use "--sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var"
> > > > >
> > > > > so you won't need to copy initscripts and you'll have your avahi
> > > > > config files in /etc/
> > > > > and no need for the "mkdir -p /usr/local/var/run/"
> > > >
> > > > If these are the "correct" paths, then could they be made the default
> > > > values so that new users don't make the same mistake I made ?
> > >
> > > Because all autoconf apps work that way.
> >
> > But all other autoconfs work !
>
> Only if they don't install files in $(localstatedir) or
> $(sysconfdir). Only a minority does that, one of them being avahi. All
> autoconf apps that use $(localstatedir) are probably "broken" in your
> eyes then.
>
> > > To deviate from the known behaviour might confuse even more people.
> >
> > Having to provide non-default options mightconfiuse people too!
>
> Sure, but that's a common issue with autoconf apps, so people should
> already know. And if they don't they learned something for
> life... ;-)
>
> > I think every other autoconf application I've installed either gets the
> > paths right by default without having to provide anything on the
> > configure command line or produces a working installation with the
> > defaults.   IMHO the avahi autoconf is borked if it can produce none
> > working installations !
>
> Yes, I admit it would make sense to create $(localstatedir) on "make
> install". In your setup however, this would lie in /usr/local/var/,
> which might be not what you want.
>
in fact it needs to create ${localstatedir}/run

> Lennart
>
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