Hi Frank,
On Wed, Jun 29, 2022 at 01:29:04PM -0400, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote:
> > In both profile.csh.in and profile.sh.in we set and then unset
> > prefix, but never use it.
>
> It is used, because the autoconf @sysconfdir@ macro expands to a
> string like "$prefix/...", which requires the shell variable $prefix
> to be set.
O, I see. Indeed the default is '${prefix}/etc'. But I never saw that
because in a package install configure is called with everything
expanded [*]. Should have tried by hand.
Patch retracted.
Thanks,
Mark
[*] --prefix=/usr --exec-prefix=/usr --bindir=/usr/bin
--sbindir=/usr/sbin --sysconfdir=/etc --datadir=/usr/share
--includedir=/usr/include --libdir=/usr/lib64
--libexecdir=/usr/libexec --localstatedir=/var
--sharedstatedir=/var/lib --mandir=/usr/share/man
--infodir=/usr/share/info
