Linux x86 (Debian 5.0), GCC 4.3, BOINC 7.0.34 from "boinc_core_release_7_0a" branch.

How I have been compile it:

sudo apt-get build-dep boinc // installing dependencies
sudo apt-get install libnotify-dev
./configure --disable-server --enable-client --prefix=/home/kanotix/boinc --sysconfdir=/home/kanotix/boinc/etc CXXFLAGS="-O3 -funroll-loops -fforce-addr -ffast-math"

I want make a prefix /home/user/boinc to make a tar.gz2 archive (--prefix=/home/kanotix/boinc). But after "make install" I see error "unable to create /etc/init.d/boinc-client", and I tried to add "--sysconfdir=/home/kanotix/boinc/etc". It did not help, and I run "sudo make install". All files are in /home/user/kanotix" and it is in my /etc/init.d/boinc-client:

## These 4 installation dirs set by autoconf. ##########################
prefix=`dirname /home/kanotix/boinc/.`
exec_prefix=`dirname /home/kanotix/boinc/.`
bindir=`dirname ${exec_prefix}/bin/.`
sysconfdir=`dirname /home/kanotix/boinc/etc/.`
########################################################################

# set the basic PATH
PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/ucb/bin
export PATH

After compilind and installing:

sudo groupadd boinc //creating a boinc group
sudo usermod -a -G boinc kanotix // adding my user to boinc group
sudo useradd -g boinc -m boinc // adding boinc user
sudo usermod -a -G boinc boinc // adding boinc user to boinc group
sudo chown -R boinc:boinc /var/lib/boinc // making this directory a directory of a boinc user

An error:

kanotix@Kanotix:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/boinc-client start
The BOINC client requires initialization.                  [WARNING]
Starting BOINC client as a daemon:  /etc/init.d/boinc-client: line 417: [: 25199: binary operator expected

kanotix@Kanotix:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/boinc-client start
The BOINC client requires initialization.                  [WARNING]
Starting BOINC client as a daemon:  /etc/init.d/boinc-client: line 417: [: too many arguments

kanotix@Kanotix:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/boinc-client start
The BOINC client requires initialization.                  [WARNING]
Starting BOINC client as a daemon:  /etc/init.d/boinc-client: line 417: [: too many arguments

Tried to compile and install without prefix. Same error.

This is 417 string:

        if [ $PID ]; then
          echo $PID > $PIDFILE
          touch $LOCKFILE && echo_success || ( echo_failure ; echo )
        fi

I found who is 21599 PID:

25197 pts/3    00:00:00 su
25199 pts/3    00:00:00 sh
25210 pts/3    00:00:00 boinc_client
kanotix@Kanotix:~/boinc_source/boinc_core_release_7_0a$

I think it was started.