[Buildroot] libdaemons localstatedir /usr/var

[Jörg Krause]

Dear Thomas Petazzoni,

On 10/12/2014 09:18 AM, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> Dear Jörg Krause,
>
> On Sun, 12 Oct 2014 02:55:57 +0200, Jörg Krause wrote:
>> I have a package which uses libdaemon for running as a daemoon and for
>> creating the pid file. libdaemons default directory for opening the pid
>> file is /usr/var/run. However, buildroot does not create this directory
>> in the output directory by default. The package compiles successfully
>> but fails to run because of the missing directory.
>>
>> How should I deal with this?
>>
>> 1) patch libdaemon.mk: LIBDAEMON_CONF_OPTS = ... --localstatedir=/var
>> 2) add /usr/var/run to my rootfs overlay directory
>>
>> What do you think? Any other suggestions?
> I'd say (1).

Looks good. I will prepare a patch.

> Isn't --localstatedir a common autoconf variable ? I see 26 packages
> passing --localstatedir=/var in Buildroot. Maybe it's time to move as a
> common definition, like --prefix=/usr ?

Yes, it is. There was a discussion on the mailing list long time ago:

    Making --localstatedir=/var global?
    (http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/buildroot/2011-April/042918.html.)

And also this one:

    Bizarre things on the allyespackageconfig build
    (http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/buildroot/2013-May/071856.html)

Best regards
Jörg Krause
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