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

[Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx>]

On 24/02/17 17:06, Doug Goldstein wrote:
> On 2/22/17 1:53 AM, 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
>>
>> I'm in favor of (3.).
>>
>>
>> Juergen
> FWIW, many distros have already pulled the patch into their autoconf so
> its available so you wouldn't really have to do anything.
> 
> Debian: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=759647
> Ubuntu: 16.04 and newer have it
> Gentoo: no link handy but I know its there

openSUSE: not available

I don't think its a good idea to rely on _all_ relevant distributions
having done the backport.


Juergen

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