Bug #6121: [[Ruby 1.9:]] Etc.sysconfdir hides sysconfdir on windows

• Status: Closed
• Assignee: nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada)
• Target version: 2.6
• ruby -v: ruby 1.9.3p125 (2012-02-16 revision 34643) [x86_64-linux]
• Backport: 2.3: UNKNOWN, 2.4: UNKNOWN

[mpapis (Michal Papis)]

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'] ?

[naruse (Yui NARUSE)]

• Status changed from Open to Assigned
• Assignee set to usa (Usaku NAKAMURA)

[usa (Usaku NAKAMURA)]

• Category set to build
• Priority changed from 3 to Normal
• Target version set to 2.0.0

[mame (Yusuke Endoh)]

• 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.

--
Yusuke Endoh [e-mail]

[usa (Usaku NAKAMURA)]

• Assignee changed from usa (Usaku NAKAMURA) to nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada)

[nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada)]

• Status changed from Assigned to Closed

Applied in changeset trunk|r60279.

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sysconfdir on Windows

• 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.