--sysconfdir=/usr/local/etc not picked up

[John Frankish]

When compiling hplip-3.9.8, using the ./configure switch --prefix=/usr/local and/or --syscnfdir=/usr/local/etc does not result in hplip.conf being placed in /usr/local/etc/hp or dll.conf being placed in /usr/local/etc/sane.d - both are placed in /etc..

If you want to place the cnf files in /usr/local/etc, you are obliged to modify the Makefile.

Similarly, you are obliged to tell the ./configure script where to put the cups backends and filters, even though cups is installed in /usr/local and the ./configure script finds cups, it does not use /usr/local/lib/cups/backends or filters...

[John Frankish (j-frankish)]

Any comments on this?

I've found that even if "./configure --prefix=/usr/local --sysconfdir=/usr/local/etc" is used and I edit the Makefile to install the conf files to /usr/local/etc/hp, hplip is still looking for the conf files in /etc/hp and, for example, "hp-check -r" reports hplip.conf as missing.