{"thread":{"id":"18031","subject":"`./configure --XXdir=` ignored?","startedAt":"2009-02-26T14:48:29Z","lastAt":"2009-02-26T19:04:58Z","messageCount":6,"participants":["Tim Visher","Jeff King","Matthieu Moy"],"isPatch":false,"patchVersion":null,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"106329","messageId":"c115fd3c0902260648g3cc9bfeap58823e53a9dc72e6@mail.gmail.com","threadId":"18031","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"`./configure --XXdir=` ignored?","fromName":"Tim Visher","fromEmail":"tim.visher@gmail.com","sentAt":"2009-02-26T14:48:29Z","receivedAt":"2009-02-26T14:48:29Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"tim.visher@gmail.com","avatar":"https://gravatar.com/avatar/98307ce54bcac1a46b5d845827d5386e2a27895ff08790cdd3877ad527760575?d=mp&s=160"},"body":"Hello Everyone,\n\nI'm working on getting git 1.6.2-rc2 built. I have a bin, man, info,\nand html directory in my home folder that I'd like to use as the\ndefaults for git. I attempted to do this through\n\n make configure\n ./configure --XXdir=/full/path/to/dir\n make all man info html\n make install install-man install-info install-html\n\nBut other than the binaries (and I'm not even totally convinced they\ngot in correctly) and the man pages, everything else seems to be\nattempting to go to the typical places in /usr/local.\n\nWhat am I doing wrong?\n\n-- \n\nIn Christ,\n\nTimmy V.\n\nhttp://burningones.com/\nhttp://five.sentenc.es/ - Spend less time on e-mail\n"},{"id":"106333","messageId":"20090226150013.GA9785@coredump.intra.peff.net","threadId":"18031","inReplyTo":"c115fd3c0902260648g3cc9bfeap58823e53a9dc72e6@mail.gmail.com","subject":"Re: `./configure --XXdir=` ignored?","fromName":"Jeff King","fromEmail":"peff@peff.net","sentAt":"2009-02-26T15:00:13Z","receivedAt":"2009-02-26T15:00:13Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"peff@peff.net","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/45925?v=4"},"body":"On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 09:48:29AM -0500, Tim Visher wrote:\n\n> I'm working on getting git 1.6.2-rc2 built. I have a bin, man, info,\n> and html directory in my home folder that I'd like to use as the\n> defaults for git. I attempted to do this through\n> \n> make configure\n> ./configure --XXdir=/full/path/to/dir\n> make all man info html\n> make install install-man install-info install-html\n> \n> But other than the binaries (and I'm not even totally convinced they\n> got in correctly) and the man pages, everything else seems to be\n> attempting to go to the typical places in /usr/local.\n> \n> What am I doing wrong?\n\nThe configure support is notoriously incomplete (AFAIK, very few of the\nactive developers use it regularly). Probably you need something like\nthis (but I didn't test it):\n\ndiff --git a/config.mak.in b/config.mak.in\nindex 7cce0c1..505d5c7 100644\n--- a/config.mak.in\n+++ b/config.mak.in\n@@ -18,6 +18,8 @@ datarootdir = @datarootdir@\n template_dir = @datadir@/git-core/templates\n \n mandir=@mandir@\n+htmldir=@htmldir@\n+infodir=@infodir@\n \n srcdir = @srcdir@\n VPATH = @srcdir@\n"},{"id":"106334","messageId":"c115fd3c0902260709i21efa98am1e8b55462e1a5d66@mail.gmail.com","threadId":"18031","inReplyTo":"20090226150013.GA9785@coredump.intra.peff.net","subject":"Re: `./configure --XXdir=` ignored?","fromName":"Tim Visher","fromEmail":"tim.visher@gmail.com","sentAt":"2009-02-26T15:09:57Z","receivedAt":"2009-02-26T15:09:57Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"tim.visher@gmail.com","avatar":"https://gravatar.com/avatar/98307ce54bcac1a46b5d845827d5386e2a27895ff08790cdd3877ad527760575?d=mp&s=160"},"body":"On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 10:00 AM, Jeff King wrote:\n\n> The configure support is notoriously incomplete\n\nWould it be easier for me to just build the documentation and then\ninstall it by hand then? Is that even possible?\n\n-- \n\nIn Christ,\n\nTimmy V.\n\nhttp://burningones.com/\nhttp://five.sentenc.es/ - Spend less time on e-mail\n"},{"id":"106335","messageId":"20090226151535.GA17402@coredump.intra.peff.net","threadId":"18031","inReplyTo":"c115fd3c0902260709i21efa98am1e8b55462e1a5d66@mail.gmail.com","subject":"Re: `./configure --XXdir=` ignored?","fromName":"Jeff King","fromEmail":"peff@peff.net","sentAt":"2009-02-26T15:15:35Z","receivedAt":"2009-02-26T15:15:35Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"peff@peff.net","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/45925?v=4"},"body":"On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 10:09:57AM -0500, Tim Visher wrote:\n\n> On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 10:00 AM, Jeff King wrote:\n> \n> > The configure support is notoriously incomplete\n> \n> Would it be easier for me to just build the documentation and then\n> install it by hand then? Is that even possible?\n\nNo, there's Makefile support:\n\n make htmldir=/path/to/wherever install-html\n\nbut the autoconf stuff wasn't hooking into it properly (which is what\nthe patch I sent should do).\n\nWhat I meant by \"incomplete\" is that most people just use the Makefile\ndirectly without autoconf, so we never notice when bugs like this are\nhiding. Thus the bugs tend to hang around for a while until somebody\nsubmits a patch (which I was hoping you would do after getting it to\nwork).\n\n-Peff\n"},{"id":"107015","messageId":"vpq4oyht85f.fsf@bauges.imag.fr","threadId":"18031","inReplyTo":"c115fd3c0902260648g3cc9bfeap58823e53a9dc72e6@mail.gmail.com","subject":"Re: `./configure --XXdir=` ignored?","fromName":"Matthieu Moy","fromEmail":"matthieu.moy@imag.fr","sentAt":"2009-02-26T17:33:48Z","receivedAt":"2009-02-26T17:33:48Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"git@matthieu-moy.fr","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/14709?v=4"},"body":"Tim Visher writes:\n\n> Hello Everyone,\n>\n> I'm working on getting git 1.6.2-rc2 built. I have a bin, man, info,\n> and html directory in my home folder that I'd like to use as the\n> defaults for git. I attempted to do this through\n>\n> make configure\n> ./configure --XXdir=/full/path/to/dir\n\nDid you actually type --XXdir, or is this XX just a way to mean\nsomething else? I don't see --XXdir mentionned anywhere.\n\nI use \"./configure --prefix=$HOME/some/dir\" and it works fine (make\ninstall-html installs to $prefix/share/doc/).\n\n-- \nMatthieu\n"},{"id":"106350","messageId":"c115fd3c0902261104x7f867d07v5ba917adbc826435@mail.gmail.com","threadId":"18031","inReplyTo":"vpq4oyht85f.fsf@bauges.imag.fr","subject":"Re: `./configure --XXdir=` ignored?","fromName":"Tim Visher","fromEmail":"tim.visher@gmail.com","sentAt":"2009-02-26T19:04:58Z","receivedAt":"2009-02-26T19:04:58Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"tim.visher@gmail.com","avatar":"https://gravatar.com/avatar/98307ce54bcac1a46b5d845827d5386e2a27895ff08790cdd3877ad527760575?d=mp&s=160"},"body":"On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 12:33 PM, Matthieu Moy wrote:\n> Tim Visher writes:\n> I attempted to do this through\n>>\n>> make configure\n>> ./configure --XXdir=/full/path/to/dir\n>\n> Did you actually type --XXdir, or is this XX just a way to mean\n> something else? I don't see --XXdir mentionned anywhere.\n\nYes, it was just a placeholder. I actually typed things like\n--htmldir, --mandir, --bindir, etc.\n\n>\n> I use \"./configure --prefix=$HOME/some/dir\" and it works fine (make\n> install-html installs to $prefix/share/doc/).\n\nThis works for me as well. However, I was hoping for finer tuned\ncontrol than that through configure. IE ~/bin ~/man ~/info etc.\n\n-- \n\nIn Christ,\n\nTimmy V.\n\nhttp://burningones.com/\nhttp://five.sentenc.es/ - Spend less time on e-mail\n"}]}