Re: The tricky case of "--localstatedir=/var"

[Christopher Allan Webber]

Jookia writes:

> Hey there,
>
> Over the past month a few people (myself included) have been hit by the 
> 'gotcha'
> of not running ./configure with "--localstatedir=/var". It doesn't say this in
> the documentation but I question whether not having it as /var is a sane
> default. I'm sure this is somehow tied to the conventions of /usr/local.
> Here's how this issue could be fixed, in order of usefulness:

Just chiming into the chorus: this really confounded me.  I think the
breakdown here is a good one.  I'd love to see one of these approaches taken.