dovecot - Apr 2005 - libexecdir and localstatedir problem

Hello,

I'd really like to define the finale libexecdir and localstatedir 
through the configure-script. But the Makefiles are rewriting them. Not 
$libexecdir is used, but $pkglibexecdir. And $pkglibexecdir is always 
defined as $libexecdir/dovecot. But I don't want this trailing
"/dovecot".
Same with localstatedir. I want dovecot to use a certain path. But to 
this path, a "run/dovecot" is appended. I surely could build some 
patchfiles to change the Makefiles. But it would be easier, if you could 
add a new directive --pgklibexecdir to the configure-script.
I don't know where the "run/dovecot" is defined, but it would also
be
very fine to set it in the configure-script (specially when upgrading to 
new releases) instead of defining them all in the dovecot.conf 
(base_dir, login_dir).

Regards
Marten

On 22.4.2005, at 19:17, Marten Lehmann wrote:
> I'd really like to define the finale libexecdir and localstatedir 
> through the configure-script. But the Makefiles are rewriting them. 
> Not $libexecdir is used, but $pkglibexecdir. And $pkglibexecdir is 
> always defined as $libexecdir/dovecot. But I don't want this trailing 
> "/dovecot".
> Same with localstatedir. I want dovecot to use a certain path. But to 
> this path, a "run/dovecot" is appended. I surely could build some
> patchfiles to change the Makefiles. But it would be easier, if you 
> could add a new directive --pgklibexecdir to the configure-script.
> I don't know where the "run/dovecot" is defined, but it would
also be
> very fine to set it in the configure-script (specially when upgrading 
> to new releases) instead of defining them all in the dovecot.conf 
> (base_dir, login_dir).
I'll add --rundir (or is there something more standard?) which defaults 
to $localstatedir/run/dovecot. pkglibexecdir should be easy to override 
without patching makefiles:

make 'pkglibexecdir=$(libexecdir)'
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> I'll add --rundir (or is there something more standard?) which defaults
> to $localstatedir/run/dovecot.
Thanks!
> pkglibexecdir should be easy to override 
> without patching makefiles:
> 
> make 'pkglibexecdir=$(libexecdir)'
Good idea! I should have find this out on my own this as I'm defining 
DESTDIR exactly this way.

> I'll add --rundir (or is there something more standard?) which defaults
> to $localstatedir/run/dovecot.
Will you add it in dovecot-1.0-stable? I'm just waiting impatiently for 
a new 1.0-release including --rundir.

Hello,

 > pkglibexecdir should be easy to override
> without patching makefiles:
> 
> make 'pkglibexecdir=$(libexecdir)'
unfortunately, this didn't help. While DESTDIR is undefined and may be 
defined externally be setting env-variables, pkglibexecdir is defined 
within the makefiles. So even if I'm trying to change it externally, 
these values get overwritten by the later processed Makefile-definition.
But it's more a cosmetic issue than a real problem. I'd simply rather 
have the binaries in PREFIX/bin than in PREFIX/libexec/dovecot.

Regards
Marten