[fedfs-utils] [PATCH] autotools: install mount.fedfs in /sbin

[Chuck Lever]

On Aug 30, 2011, at 12:41 PM, Jeff Layton wrote:

> /bin/mount expects to find mount helpers in /sbin, so set up the code to
> install it there. We can't, however redefine the code to install it in
> /sbin unconditionally as that will break "make distcheck".
> 
> This patch instead borrows the scheme used by util-linux-ng. If the
> prefix is '/usr' or NONE, then we set root_sbindir to '/sbin'. If it's
> anything else, then it is set to the same value as the sbindir.
> 
> That allows "make distcheck" to pass and still allows mount.fedfs to
> be installed in the right place for distro packaging tools.

"make install" seems to want to put mount.fedfs in /sbin (as expected), but fedfs-map-nfs4 is installed in /usr/local/sbin.  I would have expected /usr/sbin.  Does nfs-utils and utils-linux-ng install into /usr/local by default?

> Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton at redhat.com>
> ---
> configure.ac          |    9 +++++++++
> src/mount/Makefile.am |    3 ++-
> 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
> index d46694c..c4e2823 100644
> --- a/configure.ac
> +++ b/configure.ac
> @@ -89,6 +89,15 @@ AC_FUNC_LSTAT_FOLLOWS_SLASHED_SYMLINK
> AC_FUNC_MALLOC
> AC_CHECK_FUNCS([atexit memset nl_langinfo pathconf setlocale socket strcasecmp strchr strdup strerror strndup strrchr strtoul])
> 
> +# Check whether exec_prefix=/usr:
> +root_sbindir="${sbindir}"
> +case $exec_prefix:$prefix in
> +NONE:NONE | NONE:/usr | /usr:*)
> +	root_sbindir="/sbin"
> +esac
> +
> +AC_SUBST([root_sbindir])
> +
> AC_CONFIG_FILES([Makefile
>                  doc/Makefile
>                  doc/ldap/Makefile
> diff --git a/src/mount/Makefile.am b/src/mount/Makefile.am
> index 4d0a83a..8a324f9 100644
> --- a/src/mount/Makefile.am
> +++ b/src/mount/Makefile.am
> @@ -24,7 +24,8 @@
> ##
> 
> noinst_HEADERS		= nls.h
> -sbin_PROGRAMS		= mount.fedfs fedfs-map-nfs4
> +root_sbin_PROGRAMS	= mount.fedfs
> +sbin_PROGRAMS		= fedfs-map-nfs4
> fedfs_map_nfs4_SOURCES	= fedfs-map-nfs4.c
> fedfs_map_nfs4_LDADD	= -lresolv \
> 			  $(top_builddir)/src/libsi/libsi.a
> -- 
> 1.7.6
> 
> 
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Chuck Lever
chuck[dot]lever[at]oracle[dot]com