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.
Agreed.

>
> Receipt:
>
> - Rename lib/hdb/hdb.h to lib/hdb/hdb.h.in
> - Replace /var/heimdal with @localstatedir@ in lib/hdb/hdb.h
> - Add lib/hdb/hdb.h to the arguments of AC_OUTPUT
> - Repeat for the documentation and sample config. files
>
> Oh, and the patch has another bug: it tries to modify generated files,
> not just their source. That's a big no-no.
>
> Gabor
>
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Zaar