From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthias Schwarzott Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 04:50:39 +0000 Subject: Re: udev-126 puts devices in /usr/local/dev Message-Id: <200808280650.40325.zzam@gentoo.org> List-Id: References: <48B5F216.1000708@magtech.com.au> In-Reply-To: <48B5F216.1000708@magtech.com.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org On Donnerstag, 28. August 2008, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Aug 28, David Zeuthen 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