Bug 2605

> > When I startup gmc in the default session from a RedHat
6.0 install, it
> > appears to be trying to stat all of the sites under
/afs. This causes
> > AFS to hang while it times out on sites that aren't
available. I'm not
> > sure if the stat of /afs is happening as it tries to
descend to a user's
> > home directory, but this renders it virtually unusable.
>
> Does your gmc distribution include the file
/etc/mc.global?
>
> Miguel.

Found the problem!

The RedHat spec defines a prefix of /usr, so that mc + gmc
are looking
for the mc.global file in
/usr/etc/mc.global.

I softlinked /etc/mc.global to /usr/etc/mc.global and gmc
now works
fine.

Changing the %prefix to "" changes the location to
/etc/mc.global, but
then changes the location in which to install all of the
binaries to
/bin from /usr/bin.

NOTE: In the Make.common file, the C preprocessor macro
CONFDIR is
defined in Make.common to be $(confdir) which is
$(prefix)/etc. This
appears to be where it is looking for mc.global.
Do you want CONFDIR to be $(confdir) or $(sysconfdir)?

I'm going to try changing the RPM SPEC file to install
mc.global in
${RPM_BUILD_ROOT}/%{prefix}/etc and see if that works by
default.

--Murray Anderegg