Bug 544620

Summary:	sys-libs/glibc: paths.h: _PATH_VARRUN: set to "/run/"
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Thomas Deutschmann (RETIRED) <whissi>
Component:	[OLD] Core system	Assignee:	Gentoo Toolchain Maintainers <toolchain>
Status:	RESOLVED UPSTREAM
Severity:	minor
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2015-03/msg00828.html
See Also:	https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=361349
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Thomas Deutschmann (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2015-03-27 01:55:33 UTC

Hi,

according to bug 361349 we are moving from "/var/run" to "/run".

I would suggest to patch "_PATH_VARRUN" in "/usr/include/paths.h" to point to "/run/". That way, packages using paths.h like

  #ifdef HAVE_PATHS_H
  # include <paths.h>
  #endif
  
  #ifndef _PATH_VARRUN 
  # define _PATH_VARRUN "/var/run/"
  #endif

will use "/run/" per default.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2015-03-27 20:18:49 UTC

/var/run will always exist and be a symlink to /run, so it's not really important to make this change.  will bounce it off upstream and see what happens.

Comment 2 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2015-04-02 16:36:24 UTC

no plans to change it and i see no downside to doing so