Re: udev-126 puts devices in /usr/local/dev

[Matthias Schwarzott <zzam@gentoo.org>]

On Donnerstag, 28. August 2008, Kay Sievers wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 06:50, Matthias Schwarzott <zzam@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > On Donnerstag, 28. August 2008, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> >> On Aug 28, David Zeuthen <david@fubar.dk> wrote:
> >> > If you don't pass any special options (such as prefix=/), the behavior
> >> > of putting device nodes in /usr/local/dev is indeed correct (it's
> >> > useful for e.g. debugging udev without screwing up the real /dev).
> >>
> >> This really looks like an excuse for an autoconfiscation bug.
> >> I have been maintaining an udev package for over four years and I never
> >> dreamt of rebuilding it with a different value of udev_root just for
> >> testing.
> >> It's much easier to set $UDEV_ROOT when debugging instead of forcing
> >> every package maintainer to set $prefix.
> >
> > The gentoo package now calls configure with these params:
> > --prefix=/ --includedir=/usr/include
>
> Huh? Why? Let prefix stay as usr, as usual, and set exec-prefix, as
> suggested in INSTALL. Just take a look at autogen.sh.
>

Ah, that simplifies it.
Thanks

Matthias