[Box Backup-dev] Re: [Box Backup-commit] COMMIT r2063 - in box/trunk/bin: bbackupd bbstored

[Chris Wilson]

Hi James,

On Tue, 29 Jan 2008, James O'Gorman wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 11:58:35PM +0000, subversion@fluffy.co.uk wrote:
> > Likewise, use @localstatedir_expanded@ as default location for temporary
> > state (*.pid and bbackupd.sock), defaults to /usr/local/var, although
> > /var/run may be better on LFS systems.
> 
> I must admit, I'm not sure about this. I've never seen a /usr/local/var
> on any system, and /var/run is generally a pretty safe place to put
> pidfiles and sockets.
> 
> Does autoconf make it possible to change the default location for
> localstatedir or would it have to be another kludge in configure.ac?

I think we can override the default in the same way I did for sysconfdir, 
although it's not a documented technique. I think there's no official way 
to do this. Will do it now.

Cheers, Chris.
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