From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthias Schwarzott Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 09:12:38 +0000 Subject: Re: udev-126 puts devices in /usr/local/dev Message-Id: <200808281112.38749.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, Kay Sievers wrote: > On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 06:50, Matthias Schwarzott wrote: > > 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 > > Huh? Why? Let prefix stay as usr, as usual, and set exec-prefix, as > suggested in INSTALL. Just take a look at autogen.sh. > Ah, that simplifies it. Thanks Matthias