Return-Path: Delivered-To: new-httpd-archive@hyperreal.org Received: (qmail 21548 invoked by uid 6000); 2 Mar 1998 07:38:55 -0000 Received: (qmail 21366 invoked from network); 2 Mar 1998 07:38:49 -0000 Received: from slarti.muc.de (193.174.4.10) by taz.hyperreal.org with SMTP; 2 Mar 1998 07:38:49 -0000 Received: (qmail 15240 invoked by uid 66); 2 Mar 1998 07:38:14 -0000 Received: by en1.engelschall.com (Sendmail 8.8.8) for new-httpd@apache.org id HAA14779; Mon, 2 Mar 1998 07:55:30 +0100 (MET) Message-Id: <199803020655.HAA14779@en1.engelschall.com> Subject: Re: [CONTRIB] Autoconf Interface Emulation To: new-httpd@apache.org Date: Mon, 2 Mar 1998 07:55:30 +0100 (MET) From: rse@engelschall.com (Ralf S. Engelschall) Organization: Engelschall, Germany. X-Home: http://www.engelschall.com/ X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL39 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: new-httpd-owner@apache.org Precedence: bulk Reply-To: new-httpd@apache.org In article you wrote: > 1. In the long term, I would like a file created that lists all the paths > for everything involved with Apache that can be easily parsed. This file > could be used in upgrades to put things in the right place, and by third > party products to find things. The location of it will differ from system > to system, but that isn't too bad since two or three common guesses should > get it most of the time, if not ask the user. Yes, this would another interesting option. I've writtem such stuff for AutoConf itself in the past. We can use this stuff it for 2.0, of course. > 2. I'm not convinced that it is wise to start defaulting to anything that > does not put everything under one Apache-specific tree. There are too > many platforms that are messed up by it. eg. Linux with bastard fsstnd or > whatever it is, etc. I don't understand you here, Marc. The configure _puts_ anything under one Apache-specific tree, it's the prefix! Ok, currently it is /usr/local but we can change it to /usr/local/apache or whatever. But at any case: The stuff _is_ installed under this single prefix. My configure also makes sure the common directories are not messed by looking if "apache" is part of the prefix and if not, it automatically adds "/apache" to these dirs. This is also GNU convention. In any case: The installation _does_ install the stuff under one single Apache-specific tree. Try it out! Greetings, Ralf S. Engelschall rse@engelschall.com www.engelschall.com