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31.0.50; Wrong install location for systemd user unit file

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Ulrich Müller <ulm <at> gentoo.org>
Cc: schwab <at> linux-m68k.org, 76924 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#76924: 31.0.50; Wrong install location for systemd user unit file
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2025 14:23:17 +0200

> From: Ulrich Müller <ulm <at> gentoo.org>
> Cc: Ulrich Müller <ulm <at> gentoo.org>,  Eli Zaretskii
>  <eliz <at> gnu.org>,
>   76924 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 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?

Is there no way of knowing what is systemd's idea of prefix?  If not,
I guess a configure option will have to do, but the question of the
default still stands, no?

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