meson: Generate runstatedir according to newer standard

While previously FHS 2.3 defined /var/run as a place to store
runtime information [1] it's no longer 2004 and newer
specification was released which favors /run [2]. Since it was
released 10 years ago, maybe it's time we start honouring it.

On majority of Linux systems (if not all), /var/run is a symlink
to /run anyways.

Users can still pass old location via -Drunstatedir.

1: https://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/FHS_2.3/fhs-2.3.html#VARRUNRUNTIMEVARIABLEDATA
2: https://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/FHS_3.0/fhs/ch03s15.html

Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>

diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index 95c294947d3c78cd2adbfee45ca594a1cf14ca6e..2d76a0846c6b94f8d168d25f09dd60954db770cb 100644 (file)
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ endif
 
 runstatedir = get_option('runstatedir')
 if runstatedir == ''
-  runstatedir = localstatedir / 'run'
+  runstatedir = '/run'
 endif
 
 initconfdir = get_option('initconfdir')