[syslog-ng] error in syslog-ng 3.2alpha2: missing m4 macros directory

[Guillaume Rousse]

Le 12/10/2010 11:37, Guillaume Rousse a écrit :
> Le 06/10/2010 15:40, Balazs Scheidler a écrit :
>> On Sat, 2010-10-02 at 23:01 +0200, Guillaume Rousse wrote:
>>> Hello.
>>>
>>> configure.in has this macro:
>>> AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR([m4])
>>>
>>> However, the m4 directory doesn't exist. As a consequence, running
>>> 'autoreconf' fails immediatly. I guess it's just missing, as previous
>>> release had it.
>>
>> Right. I've fixed this in the git tree already. Could you try using a
>> git snapshot?
> I just tried, the tree still doesn't have any m4 directory...
Forget this, I just understood it is dynamically created by autogen.sh
script.

[..]
> Anyway, I just realized I didn't need to regenerate autotools toolchain,
> as my patch doesn't impact any relevant file. Here it is, its goal is
> just to ensure than syslog-ng doesn't create files directly under
> $localstatedir directory, which is actually /var, but only under its own
> specific directory, $localstatedir/lib/syslog-ng. It avoid the need to
> override configure defaults through --localstatedir option, as does the
> spec file shipped in the tree.
Actually, the patch itself only deals with localestatedir, whereas the
same issue appears with other shared directories (datadir and sysconfdir).

By default, with a standard prefix, all those locations matches shared
directories (/etc, /usr/share, /var), forcing packagers to override all
of them to isolate syslog-ng specific content. Having all of them
correct by default would be nicer for FHS-addicts.

However, it also allow people using a distinct prefix (/opt/syslog-ng
for instance) to avoid uselessly long path for different component
(/opt/syslog-ng/share instead of /opt/syslog-ng/share/syslog-ng). I
guess this is the goal here.
-- 
BOFH excuse #368:

Failure to adjust for daylight savings time.

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