Re: Which variable expands to /var?

[Ralf Wildenhues]

* Eric Blake wrote on Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 04:18:44PM CET:
> According to Ralf Wildenhues on 2/8/2008 12:08 AM:
> | Maybe I'm being dense, but there are lots of users complaining that
> | configure already has far too many options.  And you want to introduce
> | yet another one as a shortcut for
> |
> | cat >path/to/config.site <<EOF

This of course was a typo, too: EOF instead of 'EOF'.  Hmpf.

> | # Change to FHS defaults if installing below /usr, and the
> | # respective other settings have not been changed on the command line.
> | if test "$prefix" = /usr; then
> |   test "$sysconfdir" = '$prefix/etc' && localstatedir=/etc
> |   test "$sharedstatedir" = '$prefix/com' && sharedstatedir=/var
> |   test "$localstatedir" = '$prefix/var' && localstatedir=/var
> | fi
> | EOF
[...]

> +test "$sharedstatedir" = '${prefix}/com' && sharedstatedir=/var

For texi, you need to s/[{}]/@&/g.  Thanks for the patch.

Cheers,
Ralf