Re: alternate file layout for ircd.

[Christophe Kalt <kalt@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Apr 06, borud@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
| 
| one of the irritating things with ircd is that I have always had to
| modify config.h and friends in order to place files where I wanted
| them.  the /dir/prefix/{sbin,bin,lib/ircd,man} stuff hardly fits in
| any of the systems I've used.
| 
| I like to keep "subsystems" in their own directory trees.  like HTTP,
| which I keep under /local/www with subdirectories like bin, conf, log,
| cgi etc.  
| 
| with ircd I usually have had:
| 
|   /some/prefix +----> etc  (conf, pid, tune, motd)
|                |
|                +----> bin  (ircd, restart-script)
|                |
|                +----> logs (users, opers)
| 
| 
| perhaps we should make it possible to ./configure the location of
| these files?  I for one think "/some/prefix/lib/ircd/" is a silly
| place to keep your ircd configuration files.

Doesn't "./configure --prefix=/some/prefix --libdir=/some/prefix/etc"
do what you want? (except for logs)
are you saying that you also want a --logdir option?