[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 1/3] Support --sysconfdir in configure to specify path to configuration files (v3)

[Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>]

On 01/24/2010 03:22 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> The default value is ${prefix}/etc/qemu.  --sysconfdir can be used to override
> the default to an absolute path.  The expectation is that when installed to
> /usr, --sysconfdir=/etc/qemu will be used.
>
> Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori<aliguori@us.ibm.com>
> ---
> v2 ->  v3
>   - default sysconfdir to ${prefix}/etc on unix, ${prefix} on win32
>   - set confdir to ${sysconfdir}/qemu on unix, ${sysconfdir} on win32

I'm not sure about the choice for Windows.  Do we want possibly a dozen 
of .conf files all in the same directory as the binaries, or maybe it's 
better to set sysconfdir = ${prefix}/conf, confdir=${sysconfdir} on Windows?

> +if test "$mingw32" = "yes" ; then
> +  echo "CONFIG_QEMU_CONFDIR=\"$sysconfdir\"" >> $config_host_mak
> +else
> +  echo "CONFIG_QEMU_CONFDIR=\"${sysconfdir}/qemu\"" >> $config_host_mak
> +fi

Also, here you can use $confsuffix as used a bit above to avoid 
introducing an if here.

Anyway, this can be discussed/cleaned up later, this patch gets my ack.

Paolo