Re: Option doesn't work properly when backporting to version 2.69

[Ondrej Dubaj]

test.sh.in:
#/bin/bash
ls @runstatedir@

configure.ac:
# Taken from http://www.idryman.org/blog/2016/03/10/autoconf-tutorial-1/
# Must init the autoconf setup
# The first parameter is project name
# second is version number
# third is bug report address
AC_INIT([test], [1.0])

# We want to expand templates in this file
AC_CONFIG_FILES([test.sh])
# Store the auxiliary build tools (e.g., install-sh, config.sub, config.guess)
# in this dir (build-aux)
AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR([build-aux])

# Generate the output
AC_OUTPUT


On Fri, Mar 5, 2021 at 12:12 PM Ondrej Dubaj <odubaj@redhat.com> wrote:

> When backporting the given commit to version 2.69:
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> https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/autoconf.git/commit/?id=a197431414088a417b407b9b20583b2e8f7363bd
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> we are experiencing problems with behaviour in Fedora.
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> In the documentation there is: By default runstatedir is a subdirectory of 
> ${localstatedir},
> but it doesn't behave in such a way. The expectation was that after setting
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> --localstatedir=/dirA
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> will it change also @runstatedir@ to /dirA/run. But @runstatedir@ changes 
> always to /run.
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> Steps to Reproduce:
>     1. run autoreconf --verbose --install --force
>     2. mkdir /tmp/run/
>     3. touch /tmp/run/file1
>     4. ./configure --localstatedir=/tmp
>     5. ./test.sh
> Actual results:
> list /run
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> Expected results:
> list /tmp/run
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> test.sh.in:
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> *#/bin/bashls @runstatedir@*
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> *# Taken from http://www.idryman.org/blog/2016/03/10/autoconf-tutorial-1/ 
> <http://www.idryman.org/blog/2016/03/10/autoconf-tutorial-1/># Must init the 
> autoconf setup# The first parameter is project name# second is version 
> number# third is bug report addressAC_INIT([test], [1.0])# We want to expand 
> templates in this fileAC_CONFIG_FILES([test.sh])# Store the auxiliary build 
> tools (e.g., install-sh, config.sub, config.guess)# in this dir 
> (build-aux)AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR([build-aux])# Generate the outputAC_OUTPUT*
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> Is there anything missing in the applied patch adding runstatedir option ?
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> Thanks for cooperation.
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> Red Hat developers
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