Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/3] configure: make full config dir path configurable

[Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>]

On 03/19/2012 09:47 AM, Eduardo Habkost wrote:
> Instead of hardcoding $sysconfdir/qemu, let the user choose the full
> path.
>
> Signed-off-by: Eduardo Habkost<ehabkost@redhat.com>
> ---
>   configure |   15 ++++++++++-----
>   1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/configure b/configure
> index 8b4e3c1..98027c1 100755
> --- a/configure
> +++ b/configure
> @@ -162,6 +162,7 @@ libdir="\${prefix}/lib"
>   includedir="\${prefix}/include"
>   sysconfdir="\${prefix}/etc"
>   confsuffix="/qemu"
> +fullconfdir=""
>   slirp="yes"
>   fmod_lib=""
>   fmod_inc=""
> @@ -595,6 +596,8 @@ for opt do
>     ;;
>     --sysconfdir=*) sysconfdir="$optarg"
>     ;;
> +  --confdir=*) fullconfdir="$optarg"
> +  ;;
>     --sbindir=*|--libexecdir=*|--sharedstatedir=*|--localstatedir=*|\
>     --oldincludedir=*|--datarootdir=*|--infodir=*|--localedir=*|\
>     --htmldir=*|--dvidir=*|--pdfdir=*|--psdir=*)
> @@ -1010,7 +1013,8 @@ echo "  --mandir=PATH            install man pages in PATH"
>   echo "  --datadir=PATH           install firmware in PATH"
>   echo "  --docdir=PATH            install documentation in PATH"
>   echo "  --bindir=PATH            install binaries in PATH"
> -echo "  --sysconfdir=PATH        install config in PATH/qemu"
> +echo "  --sysconfdir=PATH        install config in PATH$confsuffix"
> +echo "  --confdir=PATH           install config in PATH (overrides --sysconfdir)"

These semantics seem odd to me, is this similar to what autotools does?  I think 
that's what we're trying to match here.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori