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31.0.50; Wrong install location for systemd user unit file

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Message #14 received at 76924 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Ulrich Müller <ulm <at> gentoo.org>
Cc: 76924 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#76924: 31.0.50; Wrong install location for systemd user
 unit file
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2025 15:48:59 +0200

> From: Ulrich Müller <ulm <at> gentoo.org>
> Cc: Ulrich Müller <ulm <at> gentoo.org>,  76924 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2025 14:34:20 +0100
> 
> > Or maybe we should use pkg-config, at least if no --prefix was
> > specified at configure time?
> 
> systemd.pc has this
> (https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/cd20d48c69f9e586de914e1facf33b11122477ae/src/core/systemd.pc.in#L34):
> 
>    systemd_user_unit_dir=${prefix}/lib/systemd/user
>    systemduserunitdir=${systemd_user_unit_dir}
> 
> So depending on the prefix, that would be /lib or /usr/lib (which are
> equivalent, see above).
> 
> Maybe the cleanest solution would be to ask pkg-config (after all,
> systemd must find these files), with $(prefix)/lib/systemd/user as
> fallback location.

SGTM, thanks.

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