FreeTDS Development Group

["Thompson, Bill D (London)" <ThompBil AT exchange.uk.ml.com>]

James,

I downloaded the latest snapshot this am.

After configuring in my normal way ( --prefix=<my home>/freetds
--with-unixodbc=<my home>/unixodbc )

I find that sysconfdir has been set to "/etc/freetds" and my make install
fails as a result

Is this a bug ?

Bill

> -----Original Message-----
> From: James K. Lowden [SMTP:jklowden AT speakeasy.org]
> Sent: Friday, September 06, 2002 6:14 AM
> To:   TDS Development Group
> Subject:      [freetds] sysconfdir
> 
> I am having doubts about the wisdom of defaulting --sysconfdir to
> /etc/freetds.  
> 
> My first attempt was flawed, and Frediano heroically fixed it, somewhat. 
> But if you do "./configure --help", it still says:
> 
>   --sysconfdir=DIR        read-only single-machine data in DIR
> [PREFIX/etc]
> 
> I assumed all this was settable in predictable ways once I RTFM.  But I
> did read the autoconf documentation, as well as 
> 
> http://sources.redhat.com/autobook/autobook/autobook.html
> 
> and nowhere -- nowhere -- is a way described to override the sysconfdir
> default default.  Change the default prefix?  No problem, done.  But
> sysconfdir is always always described in terms of PREFIX.  Go ahead and
> grep through the autoconf sources, too, why don't you?  You won't find
> anything there, either.  
> 
> You know what Harry Truman said.  "When I'm wrong, I change my mind.  What
> do you do?" (Change the code, Mr. President?)  
> 
> So I'm thinking, better switch than fight.  Let freetds.conf be written to
> /usr/local/etc.  If that's what autoconf wants to do, it must be what lots
> of packages do, it can't be all wrong.  I personally like having packages
> create directories for themselves in /etc, but I don't want to impose my
> idiosyncrasies on everyone else.  Well, not this particular one, at any
> rate.  
> 
> In any case, we can't very well have "configure --help" say the default is
> one thing when it's really another.  Even my mother would think that's
> just silly.  
> 
> I'm sorry to bring this up again but I couldn't very well switch it
> without telling anyone. ;)
> 
> --jkl
> 
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