Am 5/5/2011 18:17, schrieb Junio C Hamano: > The point of this approach is to make a progress without regressing, and > the (minimum) progress needed to be made that comes from the beginning of > this discussion is that setting $(prefix) from the command line of make > works but it does not when it is set in config.mak (or config.mak.autogen > which in turn is added by running "./configure --prefix=..."). Ah! That's a piece of informatin that I was missing. To fix that, wouldn't it have been sufficient to just move the ifeq($(prefix),/usr) conditional past -include config.mak, without any other changes? (But I'm mostly clueless about when which make variables from what source override what.) -- Hannes -- 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