Return-Path: Delivered-To: new-httpd-archive@hyperreal.org Received: (qmail 21726 invoked by uid 6000); 2 Mar 1998 07:38:59 -0000 Received: (qmail 21549 invoked from network); 2 Mar 1998 07:38:55 -0000 Received: from slarti.muc.de (193.174.4.10) by taz.hyperreal.org with SMTP; 2 Mar 1998 07:38:55 -0000 Received: (qmail 15252 invoked by uid 66); 2 Mar 1998 07:38:16 -0000 Received: by en1.engelschall.com (Sendmail 8.8.8) for new-httpd@apache.org id IAA19106; Mon, 2 Mar 1998 08:17:35 +0100 (MET) Message-Id: <199803020717.IAA19106@en1.engelschall.com> Subject: Re: [CONTRIB] Autoconf Interface Emulation To: new-httpd@apache.org Date: Mon, 2 Mar 1998 08:17:35 +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: >[...] > 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. To make it more clear, here are some examples: The call $ ./configure or $ ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/apache leads to: prefix = /usr/local/apache exec_prefix = /usr/local/apache bindir = /usr/local/apache/bin sbindir = /usr/local/apache/sbin libexecdir = /usr/local/apache/libexec mandir = /usr/local/apache/man sysconfdir = /usr/local/apache/etc datadir = /usr/local/apache/share localstatedir = /usr/local/apache/var The call $ ./configure --prefix=/usr/local leads to: prefix = /usr/local exec_prefix = /usr/local bindir = /usr/local/bin sbindir = /usr/local/sbin libexecdir = /usr/local/libexec mandir = /usr/local/man sysconfdir = /usr/local/etc/apache datadir = /usr/local/share/apache localstatedir = /usr/local/var/apache This is the way good packages install to avoid messing up existing trees... Greetings, Ralf S. Engelschall rse@engelschall.com www.engelschall.com