Merge pull request #700 from mesonbuild/sysconfdir

Added sysconfdir option. Closes #694.

mesonbuild/coredata.py

@@ -211,6 +211,11 @@ builtin_options = {
         'datadir'           : [ UserStringOption, 'Data file directory.', 'share' ],
         'mandir'            : [ UserStringOption, 'Manual page directory.', 'share/man' ],
         'localedir'         : [ UserStringOption, 'Locale data directory.', 'share/locale' ],
+    # Sysconfdir is a bit special. It defaults to ${prefix}/etc but nobody
+    # uses that. Instead they always set it manually to /etc. This default
+    # value is thus pointless and not really used but we set it to this
+    # for consistency with other systems.
+        'sysconfdir'        : [ UserStringOption, 'Sysconf data directory.', 'etc' ],
         'werror'            : [ UserBooleanOption, 'Treat warnings as errors.', False ],
         'warning_level'     : [ UserComboOption, 'Compiler warning level to use.', [ '1', '2', '3' ], '1'],
         'layout'            : [ UserComboOption, 'Build directory layout.', ['mirror', 'flat' ], 'mirror' ],

mesonbuild/mesonmain.py

@@ -47,6 +47,7 @@ add_builtin_argument('includedir')
 add_builtin_argument('datadir')
 add_builtin_argument('mandir')
 add_builtin_argument('localedir')
+add_builtin_argument('sysconfdir')
 add_builtin_argument('backend')
 add_builtin_argument('buildtype')
 add_builtin_argument('strip', action='store_true')