[Kolab-devel] Kolab 2.0 Release Coordination

[Richard Bos]

Anyone?

Op dinsdag 27 juli 2004 09:24, schreef Richard Bos:
> Op zondag 11 juli 2004 12:52, schreef Martin Konold:
> > > No.  See, my 1st remark (starting with 'And now you'), kolab should be
> > > relocatable!  Leave, the rest up to the community and accept patches
> > > concerning relocation.  Once kolab is relocatable distributions can
> > > start thinking to _integrate_ kolab into their distribution.
> >
> > Ok, I am now convinced that we need more relocateable than the currently
> > provided simple prefix.
>
> How to deal with the following construction from 'kolabd';
>
> my $prefix = $Kolab::config{'prefix'};
> my $pidfile = IO::File->new("$prefix/var/kolab/kolab.pid", 'w+')
>
>     || die "Unable to open PID file `$prefix/var/kolab/kolab.pid'";
>
> If made it (once) relocatable with autotools.  I did it as follows;
>
> my $pidfile = IO::File->new("@kolab_pid_file@", 'w+')
>
>     || die "Unable to open PID file `@kolab_pid_file@'";
>
> Where @kolab_pid_file@ has been defined as @sysconfdir@/kolab/kolab.pid
> (this might not completely correct as I did it a long time ago), but you
> get the idea.  @sysconfdir@ = @prefix@/var and @prefix@ is defined by the
> user.  In case of openpkg @prefix@ = /kolab
>
> Would this be a correct conversion or do I miss something as $prefix seems
> to be retrieved from a config file....

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