Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Next step in build process cleanup

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 14:05:55 -0800
On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 10:38:40PM +0100, Joerg Mayer wrote:
> Forgot: c) Find out why (t)ethereal still searches the manuf file in
>      /usr/local/etc instead of its new location.

Probably because:

	1) "initialize_ethers()" looks for it in the directory specified
	   whose pathname is returned by "get_datafile_dir()";

	2) on UNIX, "get_datafile_dir()" returns the value of the
	   DATAFILE_DIR #define;

	3) the epan configure script sets it based on "sysconfdir";

	4) the epan Makefile sets "sysconfdir" to ${prefix}/etc.

The epan Makefile doesn't *use* "sysconfdir", however, nor does it use
the DATAFILE_DIR defined in it.

Currently, the top-level Makefile sets "etherealconfdir" to
"$(prefix)/share/ethereal".  I would:

	1) suggest that it should set it to "${datadir}/ethereal"
	   instead, as "datadir" is already set to "${prefix}/share";

	2) change "epan/configure.in" to set DATAFILE_DIR to "$datadir"
	   rather than to "$sysconfdir";

	3) change "get_datafile_dir()" to, on UNIX, return the
	   concatenation of DATAFILE_DIR and "/share".

If there's some way to arrange that the Makefile define DATAFILE_DIR to
be $etherealconfdir, then you wouldn't have to change
"get_datafile_dir()" (although you might want to change the name
DATAFILE_DIR to ETHEREALCONF_DIR).

BTW, it appears that automake 1.4 will arrange that "pkgdatadir" will be
defined as "$(datadir)/@PACKAGE@", so you could probably get rid of
"etherealconfdir" entirely and just use "pkgdatadir".