Html documents will be installed to root dir (/) no matter what prefix is set, if run these commands before `make` and `make install-html`: $ make configure $ ./configure --prefix=<PREFIX> After the installation, all the html documents will copy to rootdir (/), and: $ git --html-path <PREFIX> $ git help -w something fatal: '<PREFIX>': not a documentation directory. This is because the variable "htmldir" points to a undefined variable "$(docdir)" in file "config.mak.autogen", which is generated by running `./configure`. This bug comes from commit fc1c541 (Honor configure's htmldir switch), since v1.8.1.3-537-g1d321. Add the required two variables "PACKAGE_TARNAME" and "docdir" to file "config.mak.in" will resolve this problem. Signed-off-by: Jiang Xin <worldhello.net@xxxxxxxxx> --- config.mak.in | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/config.mak.in b/config.mak.in index d7c49..fa02bd 100644 --- a/config.mak.in +++ b/config.mak.in @@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ LDFLAGS = @LDFLAGS@ AR = @AR@ TAR = @TAR@ DIFF = @DIFF@ +PACKAGE_TARNAME = @PACKAGE_TARNAME@ #INSTALL = @INSTALL@ # needs install-sh or install.sh in sources prefix = @prefix@ @@ -17,6 +18,7 @@ gitexecdir = @libexecdir@/git-core datarootdir = @datarootdir@ template_dir = @datadir@/git-core/templates sysconfdir = @sysconfdir@ +docdir = @docdir@ mandir = @mandir@ htmldir = @htmldir@ -- 1.8.2.rc0.18.g63af42f.dirty -- 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