Re: Hardcoded sysconfigdir paths

[Ben Pfaff]

Ivy Foster <address@hidden> writes:

> I'm looking to package PSPP for ArchLinux (well, upload instructions
> to the Arch User Repository), which generally doesn't make use of
> /usr/etc. Therefore, I've tried passing ./configure the
> --sysconfdir=/etc option, which went fine--everything built and
> installed with no problems. 
>
> Unfortunately, on startup the command-line pspp (as opposed to
> psppire) informs me that it can't find the files that normally go in
> the usr/etc dir...it seems the paths are hardcoded.

What files is it having trouble finding?  sysconfdir isn't
hard-coded, and "configure --sysconfdir=/etc" should do what you
want.
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