mbert/elvis — pull request #8 by ezequielv (2014-11-27 00:37:01+00:00)
Title: added support for '--etcdir' in 'configure' (default: '/etc')

* for backwards-compatibility, the default is `'/etc'`, which causes the
config files to go in `'/etc/elvis'`;
* this feature was added to allow non-"distro" controlled directories
to be used (for example, in the user's `'$HOME'` directory, or a
directory under `'/usr/local'`), which improves separation between
"experimental" or "manually built" installations and
"distro-controlled" or "standard" ones;

As an example, you can *"configure"* elvis to use an `'etc'` directory within its install directory:

```sh
$ ( p=/usr/local/opt/elvis-2.2_git_01_x11 && ./configure --verbose --with-x --x-libraries=/usr/lib64 --prefix=$p --etcdir=$p/etc linux ) ; echo "rc: $?"
```