Re: [PATCH 0/2] Set Makefile variables from configure

From: Ben Walton <bwalton@artsci.utoronto.ca>
Date: Nov 3, 2009, 17:25 UTC
Message-ID: <1257269082-sup-5056@ntdws12.chass.utoronto.ca>
In-Reply-To: <1257021695-21260-1-git-send-email-bwalton@artsci.utoronto.ca>

Excerpts from Ben Walton's message of Sat Oct 31 16:41:33 -0400 2009:

Ping?  Is this useful or should I drop it?

Thanks -Ben

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> These patches add support for setting the newly created DEFAULT_EDITOR
> and DEFAULT_PAGER from the configure script.  I also tacked in
> ETC_GITCONFIG, since I can't currently toggle this without setting a
> command line value when building, but have need to alter it.
> 
> The function added is generic, and will allow for setting new
> variables as needed in the future.  No validation is done on the
> values.  It is less specific than the *_PATH setting functions that
> already exist.
> 
> Ben Walton (2):
>   configure: add function to directly set Makefile variables
>   configure: allow user to set gitconfig, pager and editor
> 
>  configure.ac |   24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

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