[rt-users] Configure Options for Custom Directories

[Tim Wiley]

On 03/18/2013 06:06 AM, Kevin Falcone wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 10:31:53AM -0700, Tim Wiley wrote:
>> I'm wanting to change the directory layout of our RT installation
>> just a bit to put it more in line with the standards of our
>> packaging & deploy system.  The configure script clearly states that
>> this is possible with a set of options.
>>
>> However, I'm finding that of the 3 options I want to use (prefix,
>> sysconfdir & localstatedir), only prefix is being honored.  I've
>> attached (for readability) a log of my configure command & then a
>> grep for one of my option values.  Clearly, the configure script is
>> ignoring my other 2 options as they show up nowhere in the grep
>> output except for where the configure command is stored.
>
> I can totally believe that autoconf and our usage is interacting
> poorly.  I bet you'll have *much* more luck defining a custom layout
> than bending autoconf.  This is how the debian packages (for example)
> work.
>
> Open up config.layout, copy one of the sections, give it a different
> name and then run configure with --enable-layout=mylayout
> You may need to run configure.ac and/or clean out autom4te.cache to
> ensure that autoconf sees your changes.  This should give you a lot
> more flexibility.
>
> -kevin

Thank you, Kevin.  I'll do that & report back this morning.