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authorEelco Dolstra <e.dolstra@tudelft.nl>2008-11-20T14·14+0000
committerEelco Dolstra <e.dolstra@tudelft.nl>2008-11-20T14·14+0000
commit285d26374aac69d2bbd1df31bc76686ad39171a4 (patch)
treed5a89a857e4079cf68e0a750dc8b630776fd37e4 /configure.ac
parenta55113411fe8e6ef39e24c79564e39f07f5a8fdf (diff)
* Don't set the prefix to /nix by default, rather use the Autoconf
  default of /usr/local.  However, localstatedir and storedir are set
  to /nix/var/nix and /nix/store respectively unless they're
  explicitly overriden.

Diffstat (limited to 'configure.ac')
-rw-r--r--configure.ac12
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index ffeff3a5ebdf..64d60adf15eb 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ AC_INIT(nix, 0.12)
 AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR(README)
 AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR(config)
 AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([dist-bzip2 foreign])
-        
+
 # Change to `1' to produce a `stable' release (i.e., the `preREVISION'
 # suffix is not added).
 STABLE=0
@@ -18,8 +18,6 @@ fi
 
 AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED(NIX_VERSION, ["$VERSION"], [Nix version.])
 
-AC_PREFIX_DEFAULT(/nix)
-
 AC_CANONICAL_HOST
 
 
@@ -61,6 +59,10 @@ AC_SUBST(system)
 AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED(SYSTEM, ["$system"], [platform identifier (`cpu-os')])
 
 
+# State should be stored in /nix/var, unless the user overrides it explicitly.
+test "$localstatedir" = '${prefix}/var' && localstatedir=/nix/var
+
+
 # Windows-specific stuff.
 if test "$sys_name" = "cygwin"; then
     # We cannot delete open files.
@@ -174,7 +176,7 @@ AC_SUBST(xmlflags)
 
 AC_ARG_WITH(store-dir, AC_HELP_STRING([--with-store-dir=PATH],
   [path of the Nix store]),
-  storedir=$withval, storedir='${prefix}/store')
+  storedir=$withval, storedir='/nix/store')
 AC_SUBST(storedir)
 
 AC_ARG_ENABLE(old-db-compat, AC_HELP_STRING([--disable-old-db-compat],
@@ -240,7 +242,7 @@ if test -z "$bzip2"; then
   bzip2_lib='-L${top_builddir}/externals/inst-bzip2/lib -lbz2'
   bzip2_include='-I${top_builddir}/externals/inst-bzip2/include'
   # The binary will be copied to $libexecdir.
-  bzip2_bin='${libexecdir}'
+  bzip2_bin='${libexecdir}/nix'
   # But for testing, we have to use the temporary copy :-(
   bzip2_bin_test='${top_builddir}/externals/inst-bzip2/bin'
 else