[sr-dev] Compilation ignoring directory settings

[Andrei Pelinescu-Onciul]

On Jun 10, 2009 at 16:43, Edson - Lists <4lists at gmail.com> wrote:
> I compile and install with:
> # make prefix=/ mandir=/usr/local/man cfg_dir=/etc/sip-router install
> 
> then I run:
> # ser
> 
> and got:
> ERROR: loading config file(/usr/local/etc/ser/ser.cfg): No such file or 
> directory
> 
> The ERROR message is expected (there is no /usr/local/etc/ser directory 
> at all), but why is sip-router (ser) trying to find configuration file 
> on the default directory if I explicitly compile it pointing to another 
> one? From what I looked on Makefile.defs the config directory is gived 
> by the "cfg_dir" variable... "prefix" is honor, since "ser" binary is 
> installed correctly:

> 
> # which ser
> /sbin/ser

You have to run
make cfg prefix=/ mandir=/usr/local/man cfg_dir=/etc/sip-router
and then make install.

You could override most saved config vars on the command line, but the
problem with the built-in config dir is that is part of C_DEFS
(-DCFG_DIR=....) and C_DEFS is evaluated before is saved in config.mak
=> even if you later override cfg_target, prefix or cfg_dir, C_DEFS
won't change.

I could make this override work (either by moving -DCFG_DIR out of
C_DEFS or by saving C_DEFS without evaluating it first), but on any
change to prefix, cfg_dir or cfg_target you'll get a full recompilation
any way, since -DCFG_DIR will change (so the only gain would be not
having to run make cfg).

Andrei