Re: [PATCH] build: add --with-rundir option to configure

[Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>]

On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 08:53:24AM +0100, Juergen Gross wrote:
> On 20/02/17 16:19, Andrew Cooper wrote:
> > On 20/02/17 14:43, Juergen Gross wrote:
> >> On 20/02/17 15:31, Wei Liu wrote:
> >>> On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 08:47:07AM +0100, Juergen Gross wrote:
> >>>> There have been reports that Fedora 25 uses /run instead of /var/run.
> >>>>
> >>>> Add a --with-rundir option ito configure to be able to specify that
> >>> I've read this thread but I'm not sure if I need to take any action or
> >>> all the comments addressed -- especially the part about autoconf.
> >> Andrew, are you fine with my answer regarding autoconf? Or do you have
> >> some information regarding --runstatedir which could help?
> > 
> > Oh sorry.  Didn't realise I was blocking here.  I have no specific
> > information, other than the quick search I did.
> > 
> > Can't the future problem be worked around just with if autoconf version
> > < 2.70 ?
> 
> I don't think it is possible to add configure options other than
> --disable-*, --enable-*, --with-* or --without-* by other means than
> patching general.m4 of autoconf. I don't think we want to do that.
> 
> So the possibilities are:
> 
> 1. don't support /run instead of /var/run via configure
> 2. patch autoconf to support --runstatedir
> 3. take this patch adding support via --with-rundir and possibly
>    switch over to --runstatedir when a new autoconf version is
>    available

Option 3 but we need to have that for eternity. :-)

Wei.

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