Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] build: add --with-rundir option to configure

[Doug Goldstein <cardoe@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2/22/17 5:37 AM, Wei Liu wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 08:53:24AM +0100, Juergen Gross wrote:
>> On 20/02/17 16:19, Andrew Cooper wrote:
>>> On 20/02/17 14:43, Juergen Gross wrote:
>>>> On 20/02/17 15:31, Wei Liu wrote:
>>>>> On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 08:47:07AM +0100, Juergen Gross wrote:
>>>>>> There have been reports that Fedora 25 uses /run instead of /var/run.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Add a --with-rundir option ito configure to be able to specify that
>>>>> I've read this thread but I'm not sure if I need to take any action or
>>>>> all the comments addressed -- especially the part about autoconf.
>>>> Andrew, are you fine with my answer regarding autoconf? Or do you have
>>>> some information regarding --runstatedir which could help?
>>>
>>> Oh sorry.  Didn't realise I was blocking here.  I have no specific
>>> information, other than the quick search I did.
>>>
>>> Can't the future problem be worked around just with if autoconf version
>>> < 2.70 ?
>>
>> I don't think it is possible to add configure options other than
>> --disable-*, --enable-*, --with-* or --without-* by other means than
>> patching general.m4 of autoconf. I don't think we want to do that.
>>
>> So the possibilities are:
>>
>> 1. don't support /run instead of /var/run via configure
>> 2. patch autoconf to support --runstatedir
>> 3. take this patch adding support via --with-rundir and possibly
>>    switch over to --runstatedir when a new autoconf version is
>>    available
> 
> Option 3 but we need to have that for eternity. :-)
> 
> Wei.

Cause --runstatedir will never rear its head.... I believe I proposed
--runstatedir 3+ years ago (I can't recall how long ago) and the
maintainers said go idea we'll do a quick release with that on top of
2.69 and then work on the upcoming big release.

-- 
Doug Goldstein

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