Bug #6121
closed
[[Ruby 1.9:]] Etc.sysconfdir hides sysconfdir on windows
Description
While checking on this issue https://gist.github.com/1981223 I found out that Etc.sysconfdir is inconsistently behaving between Linux and Windows.
This issue is related to rubygems also: https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems/pull/291
On linux you can change sysconfdir with:
--sysconfdir
--prefix
and the calculated path will be available for rubygems and via Etc.sysconfdir
But on Windows users have no option to force a sysconfdir, they will always use default location (~ C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data).
Also this is not consistent to the documentation header for this function.
Is this intended behavior ?
I could see few occasions where it should be supported to allow switching to system location even --prefix / --sysconfdir was used, but this should be rather configurable not a forced setting.
Even if this is not being implemented/fixed could I get a statement if it is good for rubygems to follow Etc.sysconfdir behavior or it should rather using RbConfig::CONFIG['sysconfdir'] ?
Updated by naruse (Yui NARUSE) over 13 years ago
- Status changed from Open to Assigned
- Assignee set to usa (Usaku NAKAMURA)
Updated by usa (Usaku NAKAMURA) about 13 years ago
- Category set to build
- Priority changed from 3 to Normal
- Target version set to 2.0.0
Updated by mame (Yusuke Endoh) over 12 years ago
- Target version changed from 2.0.0 to 2.6
Postponing it to next minor.
Usa-san, let me know if you think it is a significant issue.
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Yusuke Endoh mame@tsg.ne.jp
Updated by usa (Usaku NAKAMURA) about 8 years ago
- Assignee changed from usa (Usaku NAKAMURA) to nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada)
Updated by nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada) about 8 years ago
- Status changed from Assigned to Closed
Applied in changeset trunk|r60279.
sysconfdir on Windows
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ext/etc/etc.c (etc_sysconfdir): mentioned special case on
Windows. [ruby-core:43110] [Bug #6121] -
win32/Makefile.sub (config.status): sysconfdir is not used on
Windows.