From ef3d080a9ace3f8e0c985b737ededf6d6f1285ad Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joey Hess Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 15:49:52 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] response --- doc/bugs/install_into_home_dir_fails.mdwn | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/bugs/install_into_home_dir_fails.mdwn b/doc/bugs/install_into_home_dir_fails.mdwn index aebd57ca0..ad19f3a69 100644 --- a/doc/bugs/install_into_home_dir_fails.mdwn +++ b/doc/bugs/install_into_home_dir_fails.mdwn @@ -1,5 +1,28 @@ dunno if it just me, but I had to add PREFIX a few places to get 'perl INSTALL_BASE=$HOME' to work +> That will cause the files to be installed into a place that ikiwiki +> doesn't look for them. It will also cause them to be installed into +> /usr/etc by default, where ikiwiki also won't find them. +> +> Thomas Keller also ran into some sort of problem with the MacPort +> involving the installation into /etc. From that discussion: +> +> Both ikiwiki-update-wikilist and ikiwiki-mass-rebuild hardcode /etc; so +> do several pages in the doc wiki. +> +> The real problem though is that MakeMaker does not have a standard way +> of specifying where /etc files go. In Debian we want everything to go +> into /usr, rather than the default /usr/local, so set PREFIX=/usr -- but +> we still want config files in /etc, not /usr/etc. The only way I can see +> around this is to add a nonstandard variable to control the location of +> /etc, that would override the PREFIX. +> +> Which implies that you can't just use "$installdir/etc/" in the /etc +> hardcoding scripts, and would instead need to record the new variable +> at build time, like PREFIX is recorded in $installdir. +> +> --[[Joey]] + 
 From a1e02fbdaba3725730418a837b506e713904ada5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
 From: David Bremner 
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