On 2020-09-04 09:30 +0200,Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev wrote:
> On Fri, 2020-09-04 at 00:47 -0500, Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev wrote:
> > On 9/3/20 10:53 PM, Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev wrote:
> > > Now we are using --prefix=/usr in "Ch. 6 Cross Compiling Temporary
> > > Tools". The
> > > problem is that configure scripts (generated by autoconf) will try
> > > to load
> > > ${prefix}/share/config.site and ${prefix}/etc/config.site. These
> > > things are
> > > really "powerful" - they can even override some command line
> > > options.
> > >
> > > "/usr/etc" should not exist on any FHS-compilant distro, but
> > > "/usr/share/config.site" exists on many distros.
> > >
> > > My suggestion is to add `export CONFIG_SITE=/dev/null` in
> > > /home/lfs/.bashrc. It
> > > would override the default config.site search rule.
> >
> > I don't know that we have ${prefix}/etc/config.site. I do not. I
> > do
> > have /usr/etc/xdg/autostart/xfce4-notifyd.desktop that was installed
> > yesterday when I updated xfce4-notifyd.
> >
> > We probably need to specify --sysconfdir=/etc for that.
> >
>
> As an example, fedora has /usr/share/config.site in the autoconf
> package. This one is smart and is skipped in case of cross compilation,
> but just in case, I second Xi Ruoyao's proposal. Or even to have
>
> CONFIG_SITE=$LFS/usr/share/config.site
>
> We might then create a config.site for our own use, for example with
> prefix=/usr
> sysconfdir=/etc
> localestatedir=/var
> sharedstatedir=/var
>
> That would prevent the need to have those in the configure commands...
>
> Pierre
No, that will cause some unexpected behavior.
To fix some typical non-FHS directories we should explicitly check them, like:
if [ sysconfdir = "/usr/etc" ]; then
sysconfdir=/etc
fi
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Xi Ruoyao <[email protected]>
School of Aerospace Science and Technology, Xidian University
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