[systemd-devel] Building systemd from git

[Kevin Wilson]

Hi all,
Thanks for the quick response from all responders; I was afraid that
etc here was indeed in a different context than a path....

regards,
KW

On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 4:08 PM, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
<zbyszek at in.waw.pl> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 04:02:37PM +0200, Kevin Wilson wrote:
>> Thanks, Zbyszek.
>>
>> > --prefix etc.
>>
>> I assume you mean:
>> --prefix /etc
>> and not
>> prefix /etc
>>
>> is it so ?
> No, I meant "--prefix" as in the command line option to ./configure,
> e.g. "--prefix=/usr", and "etc" as in "et cetera", not the directory.
> Something like "./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var".
> Generally, it is best to use the same flags that you distribution uses.
> Then you'll overwrite existing files instead writing them to a different
> directory and potentially causing confusion.
>
> Zbyszek