[BRLTTY] [patch] fix the api socket directory
William Hubbs
w.d.hubbs at gmail.com
Sat May 16 20:47:55 EDT 2009
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Hi Dave,
On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 08:28:06PM -0400, Dave Mielke wrote:
> [quoted lines by William Hubbs on 2009/05/16 at 17:49 -0500]
>
> > our default for calling ./configure sets localstatedir to /var/lib, and
> > when we do this, the result is that /var/lib/lib/brltty gets created.
>
> I hope you understand that you're not using the default localstatedir and that
> it'd be inappropriate for us to taylour our default settings to the
> requirements of a non-standard installation. In fact, may I strongly urge you
> to change your build environment such that localstatedir is /var as making it
> anything else precludes any package from using other subdirectories of /var via
> the localstatedir standard.
I am fixing this in the brltty-4.0 ebuild by adding
--localstatedir=/var to the configure call, and I will mention this issue
on the gentoo development mailing list to see what we can get done
there.
William
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