Summary:	ASTERISK-08368: ./configure --prefix... ignored.
Reporter:	Dmytro Mishchenko (arkadia)	Labels:
Date Opened:	2006-12-18 10:32:55.000-0600	Date Closed:	2007-03-07 12:00:14.000-0600
Priority:	Minor	Regression?	No
Status:	Closed/Complete	Components:	Core/Configuration
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Description:	I'm trying to install Asterisk without root access to specified dir. On fresh checkout of v1.4 I'm running ./configure --prefix=$HOME/asterisk14 After successfull build 'make install' stops with error: mkdir -p /var/lib/asterisk/static-http mkdir: cannot create directory `/var/lib/asterisk': Permission denied make: *** [datafiles] Error 1 Specified prefix being ignored.
Comments:	By: Jason Parker (jparker) 2006-12-18 11:01:12.000-0600 --prefix doesn't do exactly what you think it does.  If you need this, you'll need to use some of the other ones.  Try ./configure --help (hint: localstatedir and sysconfdir) Closing By: Dmytro Mishchenko (arkadia) 2006-12-18 11:15:04.000-0600 ./configure --help ... Installation directories:  --prefix=PREFIX         install architecture-independent files in PREFIX                          [/usr/local] .... By default, `make install' will install all the files in `/usr/local/bin', `/usr/local/lib' etc.  You can specify an installation prefix other than `/usr/local' using `--prefix', for instance `--prefix=$HOME'. Thats exactly what I want! It works in such way for all projects: Apache, Mysql, etc... On your suggestion you advise to change: --localstatedir=DIR    modifiable single-machine data [PREFIX/var] --sysconfdir=DIR       read-only single-machine data [PREFIX/etc] But I don't want to change second level of directories. I need to change PREFIX. By: Jason Parker (jparker) 2007-01-18 12:14:26.000-0600 --localstatedir and --sysconfdir are what you need to use, in addition to --prefix. By: Dmytro Mishchenko (arkadia) 2007-01-19 03:00:58.000-0600 I should not specify --localstatedir and --sysconfdir beacause I'm satisfied with their default values. According: "./configure --help" they are: PREFIX/var and PREFIX/etc. ... --localstatedir=DIR    modifiable single-machine data [PREFIX/var] --sysconfdir=DIR       read-only single-machine data [PREFIX/etc] ... Specifying --prefix=/foo I specify PREFIX. So why if localstatedir default value is [PREFIX/var] I need to repeat --localstatedir=/foo/var ??? By: Erick Turnquist (jhujhiti) 2007-01-27 22:35:09.000-0600 Is this on Solaris, perchance? I'm running Solaris 10 and had this same problem - the install completely ignored my --prefix (as well as other explicit path settings). Then I found this little doozy in the Makefile in the source root: ifeq ($(OSARCH),SunOS)  ASTETCDIR=/var/etc/asterisk  ASTLIBDIR=/opt/asterisk/lib  ASTVARLIBDIR=/var/opt/asterisk  ASTSPOOLDIR=/var/spool/asterisk  ASTLOGDIR=/var/log/asterisk  ASTHEADERDIR=/opt/asterisk/include  ASTBINDIR=/opt/asterisk/bin  ASTSBINDIR=/opt/asterisk/sbin  ASTVARRUNDIR=/var/run/asterisk  ASTMANDIR=/opt/asterisk/man else # correct stuff endif So someone decided that things on Solaris should only go in those places, period. Sure enough, I commented out the offending lines, leaving only the condition of the else and my --prefix worked correctly. By: Dmytro Mishchenko (arkadia) 2007-01-29 02:17:10.000-0600 I have this issue on Linux. SuSE 9.2 By: Tim Ferguson (crashhd) 2007-02-12 12:33:16.000-0600 I found a related open bug: 0009034 By: Serge Vecher (serge-v) 2007-03-07 12:00:13.000-0600 since this is a duplicate, please keep looking for a solution in the other bugs.