On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 02:05:09PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Kacper Kornet <kornet@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > ./configure can be run with option --sysconfdir=... > > and Makefile should respect that choice. > Thanks. That statement is not wrong per-se, but your patch will result in > git_etcdir always set to the same as $(sysconfdir) that is an absolute > path, which in turn would mean that the build product with prefix set to > something other than /usr won't relocate well, no? Only when ./configure is used. But autotools do not support relative paths, as far as I know. When autotools are not used, it is still possible to have relative path in git_etcdir. -- Kacper Kornet -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html