Re: Xconq 7.3 branch created!

[Stan Shebs <shebs at shebs dot cnchost dot com>]

Stan Shebs wrote:
> 
> Roland Roberts wrote:
> >
> > Uhm, can't you fix the /var thing via --sharedstatedir or
> > --localstatedir; I haven't used those, but I know there are variables
> > by that name which should point to the /var hierarchy.
> 
> I was going to say "their default values are wrong", but I looked
> more closely, and while their default values *are* wrong
> (sharedstatedir is $prefix/com (?) for instance), it looks like
> it's possible to override the value using configure.in and still
> allow it to be set.  I'll give that a try, see if the necessary
> cases work right.

The fatal flaw turns out to be that $sharedstatedir etc are
defaulted and --sharedstatedir are set in a single chunk of code
in the auto-generated part of configure, long before configure.in
bits are pulled in.  The autoconf manual even describes this as a
Good Thing...

Stan