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Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 1/3] Support --sysconfdir in configure to
 specify path to configuration files (v2)
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To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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On 01/22/2010 10:32 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 01/22/2010 05:09 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.
>
> Sorry for not being precise; --sysconfdir in Autoconf is just 
> ${prefix}/etc.

That's tough for us because on Windows, we store everything in a single 
directory.  That is, ${sysconfdir}/qemu wouldn't be a good base for us.  
We would need to have sysconfdir and then a confdir that we could make 
different for win32.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> Paolo