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[gtk-list] Re: proposed standard for gtkrc files?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeff Garzik)
Tue Dec 1 01:12:05 1998
To: gtk-list@redhat.com
Date: Tue, 1 Dec 1998 01:12:25 -0500 (EST)
Cc: kenelson@ece.ucdavis.edu
Reply-To: jgarzik@pobox.com
In-Reply-To: <199812010328.TAA05635@clover.ece.ucdavis.edu> from "Karl Nelson" at Nov 30, 98 07:28:16 pm
From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Resent-From: gtk-list@redhat.com
Karl Nelson wrote:
> I am not sure if /etc is the proper place to put a widget library
> configuration file.
[...]
> those things tied to one machine in etc. A /usr (read shared
> user files) level library should not place its configuration
> outside the /usr tree. It would be just plan bad form.
That is why they invented autoconf. :) You can set --prefix and
--sysconfdir to whatever you desire.
In any case, using "--prefix=/usr", common on Linux, will stuff the
config files by default into /usr/etc. (Some autoconf versions
default sysconfdir to /etc I think.)
Jeff
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