I'll, but need to look more into it, replacing $(PREFIX) with $(SYSCONF_DIR) doesn't seem to work as SYSCONF_DIR=$(PREFIX)/etc (see https://github.com/ oVirt/ovirt-engine/blob/master/Makefile#L41 <https://github.com/oVirt/ovirt-engine/blob/master/Makefile#L41>), so we will end up again with / usr/etc. We will probably have to do it as VMCONSOLE_* variable - hardcode config file and define new just install-dev environment (and do the proper testing before merge)
No. SYSCONF_DIR=$(PREFIX)/etc allow you to set PREFIX for developer work.
isn't it overwritten here: https://github.com/oVirt/ovirt-engine/blob/master/Makefile#L37 ? I posted https://gerrit.ovirt.org//c/108672/ which does it in the same way as ovirt-vmconsole, but if you prefer using SYSCONFIG_DIR and it work in all cases, no problem to change it this way
But then in spec file it's overridden: SYSCONF_DIR=%{_sysconfdir} $ rpm --eval "%{_sysconfdir}" /etc