Subject: Re: [bug#71022] [PATCH] configure.ac: Set default value for the 'prefix' variable.

From: Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 19 May 2024 16:16:10 +0200

Hi Maxim,

Maxim Cournoyer <[email-masked]> skribis:

> The Guix standard configuration uses a localstatedir of /var and a sysconfdir
> of /etc.  To ease things for everyone, make the default values match that
> standard expected configuration.  See
> <https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2024-05/msg00003.html> for a
> related discussion.
>
> * configure.ac: Default $prefix to '' unless already set.
> * doc/contributing.texi (Building from Git): Streamline doc.
> * doc/guix-cookbook.texi (Guix environment via direnv): Likewise.
>
> Change-Id: I23cd12b58a842d246fbc9fdc740311c573eb0212

[...]

> +dnl Set some sane default directory variables for use with the Guix.  This
> +dnl also causes localstatedir to be /var and sysconfdir to be /etc.
> +test "$prefix" = NONE && prefix=

Shouldn’t it read “prefix=/”?

Might be good to check whether this breaks “make distcheck”, so I
suppose it should be fine.

Apart from that it LGTM.  Thanks for this patch!

Ludo’.