Patch (was: RE: Please, PLEASE, remove the BASEDIR from Makefile)

[Andrej Borsenkow]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: oliva at araguaia.dcc.unicamp.br
>
> On Dec  2, 1998, "Andrej Borsenkow" <borsenkow.msk at sni.de> wrote:
>
> >> we could change the --sysconfdir default, which is $prefix/etc; it
> >> is the natural choice for configuration files.
>
> > Exactly this is not possible (in clean way). The only
> directory, that can be
> > changed in configure.in, is --prefix.
>
> Well, we don't really need to change the default, do we?
>

I am all for using $(sysconfdir) as private samba directory. But Andrew has
good reasons to have it in $(prefix)/private. What I meant, there is no
clean way to change default for sysconfdir from $(prefix)/etc to
$(prefix)/private

/andrej