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On Sun, 2012-09-23 at 10:31 -0700, Khem Raj wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 9:24 AM, Phil Blundell <philb@gnu.org> wrote:
> > The configure script uses a hard-coded value for ${usrsbin_execdir},
> > which is the path that we know as ${sbindir}.  Adjust configure to take
> > this from the environment if it's set there, and have do_configure()
> > pass it in.
> 
> I think our expectation is same as what the configure is defining
> which is sbin dir under exec_prefix

Well, that might be your expectation, but it isn't necessarily what the
user has configured.  There is no guarantee that ${sbindir} will be set
to that particular value, and the recipes ought to respect what it is,
in fact, set to.

p.