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

[Matthias Schwarzott <zzam@gentoo.org>]

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

The only thing I explicitly patched is the path to the pkgconfig file. I think 
it should be in /usr/lib/pkgconfig and not in /lib/pkgconfig.

Regards
Matthias