[openib-general] libsdp.conf placement

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

> > I noticed autotools have sysconfdir variable.
> > So it seems to me this would be the best, standard, place to keep the
> > libsdp.conf file.
> >
> > Eitan?
> >
> >   
> Unfortunately autotools are not doing the right thing.
> Quoting from libsdp Makefile.am:
> AM_CFLAGS = -Wall -DSYSCONFDIR=\"$(sysconfdir)\"
> 
> And then internally in the port.c code:
> #define LIBSDP_DEFAULT_CONFIG_FILE  SYSCONFDIR "/libsdp.conf"
> 
> Somehow when you run ./configure you get $prefix/etc as the $sysconfdir

So, that's what all other libraries that use autotools will get
(e.g. libibverbs) and that's the best default place then.

If we want to, OFED can override sysconfdir with a configure switch, can it not?

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