Re: FSH compliance.

["Hai Zaar" <haizaar@gmail.com>]

On Dec 5, 2007 12:41 PM, Gabor Gombas <gombasg@sztaki.hu> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 11:23:31AM +0200, Hai Zaar wrote:
>
> > LinuxFromScratch guys once maintained patch to add FHS compliance for
> > heimdal. I've ported it to 1.0.1.
>
> The patch is wrong because it just hides the problem instead of fixing
> it. The bug is that the code does not honour the --localstatedir=...
> option of configure. The real fix would be to use the $localstatedir
> value from configure everywhere instead of a hard-coded value. That way
> everyone can decide if he wants FHS-compliance or not at configure time.

OK, here is the thing - "/var" is hardcoded twice - as "/var/heimdal"
and "/var/run".
@localstatedir@ usually denotes "/var"-like location. Now, while
@localstatedir@/run
looks sane, @localstatedir@/lib/@PACKAGE_NAME@ will lead you back to
/var/lib/heimdal,
which probably makes (Solaris?) people unhappy.
Should we add something like ''--with-dbdir=" switch?

I will implement the fix, as long as we all are happy with design.

-- 
Zaar