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From: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 30/46] Use configure --localstatedir=BASEDIR
 to set path to /var
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2014 14:37:29 +0200
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On Tue, Sep 23, Ian Campbell wrote:

> >  case "$host_os" in
> > -*freebsd*) XEN_LOCK_DIR=/var/lib ;;
> > -*netbsd*) XEN_LOCK_DIR=/var/lib ;;
> > -*) XEN_LOCK_DIR=/var/lock ;;
> > +*freebsd*) XEN_LOCK_DIR=$localstatedir/lib ;;
> > +*netbsd*) XEN_LOCK_DIR=$localstatedir/lib ;;
> > +*) XEN_LOCK_DIR=$localstatedir/lock ;;
> 
> I've been continually surprised in this series that autoconf doesn't
> just Do The Right Thing on different $host_os's. I thought that was the
> point of it.

I'm not sure what you mean. autoconf has no knowledge of a lockdir
AFAICS. Its just that BSD puts the locks in /var/lib instead of
/var/lock, so there has to be a place to describe that.

Olaf