Bug 58167

(In reply to comment #0)
> version: systemd-196
> system: debian unstable, i686
> 
> Debian currently installs systemd, udev, and pam libraries in /lib, despite
> the /usr merge.  But still, configuring with "--libdir=/lib" or with
> "--libexecdir=/lib" or with "--exec-prefix=/" or with
> "--with-rootlibdir=/lib" makes no distinction between /lib/ and /usr/lib/. 
> Thus then, installation either fails to install with the error

Could you post the full configure line you used.

> 
> 1) If "libgudev-1.0.la" has to go into "/usr/lib", then install it to
> /usr/lib/, not into "libdir" or kin, and similarly, with "pam_systemd.la". 
> Yes, there is "configure --with-pamlibdir=/usr/lib/security" - but - does
> that not seem silly, instead of just installing to "/usr/lib/security/"?
> 
> 2) Please play nicely with others - though you might still try to persuade
> the Debian Maintainer, Tollef Fog Heen, to stop using /lib/ for systemd. 
> Does there need to be an additional "configure" option for a /lib/ install?

systemd/udev is actually one of those few packages which does support the usr split nicely.
In the Debian we can't for the time being rely on /usr being available during early boot, so we use the following configure flags:


./configure --prefix=/usr --includedir=${prefix}/include --mandir=${prefix}/share/man --infodir=${prefix}/share/info --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var --libdir=${prefix}/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu --libexecdir=${prefix}/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu --with-rootprefix= --with-rootlibdir=/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu --enable-libcryptsetup --enable-tcpwrap --enable-selinux --enable-gtk-doc --disable-coredump --with-distro=debian

(taken from config.log)

This works nicely, no problems with make install or anything.

> 3) "configure --sysconfdir=DIR" defaults to "/usr/etc".  Again - this would
> be easier if the default were simply "/etc" instead.

That is how every autotools using package works. Unless you specify --sysconfdir, it's based on $prefix. So it works as expected.

(In reply to comment #1)
> ./configure --prefix=/usr --includedir=${prefix}/include
> --mandir=${prefix}/share/man --infodir=${prefix}/share/info
> --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var
> --libdir=${prefix}/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu
                         ^
Just in case: This part is of course not hard-coded, but depends on the architecture. If you don't care for multiarch, you can either strip that part of the path or use i386-linux-gnu for i386(i686) [1].



[1] http://wiki.debian.org/Multiarch/Tuples

(In reply to comment #1)
> (In reply to comment #0)
> 
> > 3) "configure --sysconfdir=DIR" defaults to "/usr/etc".  Again - this would
> > be easier if the default were simply "/etc" instead.
> 
> That is how every autotools using package works.

Ok, actually not quite true: the default for autotools using packages is --prefix=/usr/local, which makes sysconfdir default to /usr/local/etc.

As systemd explictly set prefix to /usr (instead of using the default /usr/local) it might make sense to also let sysconfdir default to /etc (unless --sysconfdir is passed to configure)

Anything to fix here, or can this be closed?

No response, closing.