libexecdir changed again?

[Damien Miller]

On Sat, 31 Mar 2001, Jim Knoble wrote:

> [See my comments below.]
>
> ----- Forwarded message from an x11-ssh-askpass customer -----
>
> Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 16:34:28 -0800
> Subject: x11-ssh-askpass 1.2.0
> To: jmknoble at jmknoble.cx
>
> I just installed x11-ssh-askpass 1.2.0 on some systems, and ran into a
> couple of minor problems:
>
> OpenSSH 2.5.2p2 by default is looking for ssh-askpass in
> /usr/local/libexec, not /usr/local/libexec/openssh.  It works OK when
> manually installed.

Recent version of OpenSSH look wherever configure.in's libexecdir is
set. The RPMs set /usr/libexec/openssh explicitly.

> Is the default libexecdir going to remain as /usr/local/libexec/ now,
> or will it change again?  I'd like to release x11-ssh-askpass-1.2.1 and
> leave it alone for quite some time, absent bugs or actual flaws....

The default would change if autoconf changes. The RPMs would change if
rpm's default changes.

-d

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