On Sat, 28 Feb 2009, David Syzdek wrote: > On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 3:33 PM, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Thu, 26 Feb 2009, Jeff King wrote: >>> On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 09:48:29AM -0500, Tim Visher wrote: >>> >>>> I'm working on getting git 1.6.2-rc2 built. I have a bin, man, info, >>>> and html directory in my home folder that I'd like to use as the >>>> defaults for git. I attempted to do this through >>>> >>>> make configure >>>> ./configure --XXdir=/full/path/to/dir >>>> make all man info html >>>> make install install-man install-info install-html [...] >>> The configure support is notoriously incomplete (AFAIK, very few of the >>> active developers use it regularly). Probably you need something like >>> this (but I didn't test it): >>> >>> diff --git a/config.mak.in b/config.mak.in >>> index 7cce0c1..505d5c7 100644 >>> --- a/config.mak.in >>> +++ b/config.mak.in >>> @@ -18,6 +18,8 @@ datarootdir = @datarootdir@ >>> template_dir = @datadir@/git-core/templates >>> >>> mandir=@mandir@ >>> +htmldir=@htmldir@ >>> +infodir=@infodir@ >>> >>> srcdir = @srcdir@ >>> VPATH = @srcdir@ >> >> Well, the infodir part works trivially, because autoconf (and >> therefore ./configure script) has support for --infodir=DIR. >> Below there is patch that adds that, with the commit message. >> >> But it is more difficult with respect to --htmldir. I am not autoconf >> hacker, so I don't know how to add support for having --htmldir=DIR in >> ./configure (in configure.ac). What can be done is to derive htmldir >> in config.mak.in from other sources, for example: > > Autoconf add support for --htmldir in version 2.60. Here is a snippet from > the help message from a configure script generated with 2.60: > > --datarootdir=DIR read-only arch.-independent data root [PREFIX/share] > > --docdir=DIR documentation root [DATAROOTDIR/doc/PROJECT_TARNAME] > > --htmldir=DIR html documentation [DOCDIR] > > > The current configure.ac requires autoconf version>= 2.59, bumping the > requirement to autoconf>= 2.60 would allow the autoconf variable $(htmldir) > to be used. Bumping the required version of autoconf will affect users with > older linux installations who use git to upgrade git; and may affect the > maintainer's ability to create a "release" tarball if he has an older > version of autoconf. Well, I have autoconf 2.59, so I cannot test the following patch (and I am not sure if it is welcome). And of course it needs commit message, at least with explanation why bumping required version of autoconf was needed. -- >8 -- diff --git a/config.mak.in b/config.mak.in index acff9ed..56a0147 100644 --- a/config.mak.in +++ b/config.mak.in @@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ template_dir = @datadir@/git-core/templates mandir=@mandir@ infodir=@infodir@ +htmldir=@htmldir@ srcdir = @srcdir@ VPATH = @srcdir@ diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac index 082a03d..b1ab0e1 100644 --- a/configure.ac +++ b/configure.ac @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ # -*- Autoconf -*- # Process this file with autoconf to produce a configure script. -AC_PREREQ(2.59) +AC_PREREQ(2.60) AC_INIT([git], [@@GIT_VERSION@@], [git@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]) AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR([git.c]) -- Jakub Narebski Poland -- 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
