Re: /var vs /usr/pkg/var

[Mark Davies <mark%ecs.vuw.ac.nz@localhost>]

On 11/06/16 05:56, Hauke Fath wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Jun 2016 14:41:41 +0200, Thomas Klausner wrote:
> > texmf creates lots of files in /var during installation.
> > Shouldn't these live in ${PREFIX}/var?
>
> Is ${PREFIX}/var even a thing? How about ${VARBASE}?

TeX already puts them under VARBASE

% grep -r VARBASE ../kpathsea/
../kpathsea/patches/patch-aa:+TEXMFSYSVAR = @VARBASE@/lib/texmf
../kpathsea/DEINSTALL:          @VARBASE@/lib/texmf/ls-R \
../kpathsea/INSTALL:            @VARBASE@/lib/texmf \
../kpathsea/Makefile:SUBST_SED.texmfdir+=       -e 
's,@VARBASE@,${VARBASE:C;///*;/;g:C;/$;;},'
../kpathsea/Makefile:BUILD_DEFS+=               VARBASE
../kpathsea/Makefile:OWN_DIRS+=         ${TEXMFLOCAL} ${VARBASE}/lib/texmf
../kpathsea/Makefile:OWN_DIRS_PERMS+=   ${VARBASE}/lib/texmf/fonts/${d}

cheers
mark