Jim Lynch wrote:
I'd really like a way to enable this for specific applications, not
as a site default. ... ... ... If not, I'll just have to go back to
my cludgy way of adding my own rules to copy it to a hard coded
/etc, (Ugh).
What I do is to keep a configure.sh script in the parent directory
with all of the options that I want specified. Then when configuring
those special applications I run the script. This makes it more
self-documenting what I am doing and I can remember it later.
Example "../configure.sh" script:
#!/bin/sh -x
PATH=/usr/local/build/coreutils/bin:$PATH
./configure --prefix=/usr/local/build/coreutils "$@"
Then in my build directory:
sh ../configure.sh
make
make check
make install
In your case you would want to set --sysconfdir=/etc. Something like
this:
#!/bin/sh -x
./configure --sysconfdir=/etc "$@"
Bob