Subject: Re: bug#76924: 31.0.50; Wrong install location for systemd user unit file

From: Ulrich Müller <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2025 18:50:36 +0100

>>>>> On Tue, 11 Mar 2025, Andreas Schwab wrote:

> On Mär 11 2025, Ulrich Müller wrote:
>> Sorry, I had a thinko there. Asking pkg-config isn't such a good idea.
>> Imagine someone installing with prefix=/usr/local, we would then install
>> the unit file in a stray location outside prefix. It is even worse for
>> non-root installs where the dir may not even be writable.

> But the unit file needs to be installed in a location searched by
> systemd, so it needs to follow systemd's idea of prefix.

More precisely, they need to be installed in a directory that is in
systemd's search path for unit files. Which includes /usr/lib,
/usr/local/lib, /etc, and a few others.

Looks like we should have a configure option for it then?