[systemd-devel] [patch] Fix AC_PATH_PROG usage in configure.ac for systems with (still) bin vs. sbin distiction

[Michael Olbrich]

On Sun, Mar 09, 2014 at 08:49:58PM +0100, Michael Biebl wrote:
> 2014-03-08 8:52 GMT+01:00 Samuli Suominen <ssuominen at gentoo.org>:
> > If eg. setcap is in /sbin and user is building as a normal user without
> > $PATH having /sbin, the build system
> > will default to /usr/sbin/setcap as it's defined in AC_PATH_PROG and
> > fail during the build with 'setcap: command not found'
> >
> > For example, my $PATH as normal user:
> >
> > $ echo $PATH
> > /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/opt/bin:/usr/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/4.8.2
> >
> > I see Debian and Ubuntu carries a patch that changes these hardcoded
> > paths to what they have, but that's equally
> > unwise.
> 
> We do patch those defaults so we don't have to actually build-depend
> on all those packages.
> Your patch doesn't really help with that.

You don't need a patch for that. Just set the corresponding configure cache
value:
export ac_cv_path_QUOTAON=/sbin/quotaon
[...]
./configure ...

Regards,
Michael

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