[email protected] hardcodes /usr/sbin/tincd path

[pjv]

I don't do a lot of compiling from source, so forgive me if this is just ignorance, but I recently compiled 1.1pre15 from source on Ubuntu 17.10. I wanted the binaries to be located in standard system (not /usr) directories, and I wanted to manage the service with systemd so the configuration was done like this:

./configure --prefix= --with-systemd

then make
then sudo make install

When I then configured a network and tried to bring the tinc service up using

systemctl enable tinc@<netname>

the service didn't come up and the error log told me that /usr/sbin/tincd was not found.

To make it work, I had to edit the [email protected] file that was installed in /lib/systemd/system/[email protected] and change the two instances of /usr/sbin/tincd to /sbin/tincd.

After that, everything worked as expected.

Maybe I don't understand how ./configure is supposed to work, but when I ran it with --prefix= isn't that what made the install directory for tincd be /sbin/ and shouldn't that have also modified the [email protected] file so that it pointed to the correct path?

Or do I have this all wrong?

[gsliepen]

You are right, it's currently hardcoded and it shouldn't be.