From: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 20:25:04 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix the installation path for html documentation
Message-ID: <200902102125.05287.j6t@kdbg.org>
In-Reply-To: <1234278853-25452-1-git-send-email-git@drmicha.warpmail.net>

On Dienstag, 10. Februar 2009, Michael J Gruber wrote:
> Since 026fa0d5ad9538ca76838070861531c037d7b9ba (Move computation of
> absolute paths from Makefile to runtime (in preparation for
> RUNTIME_PREFIX) the installation of html doc was broken:
> Documentation/Makefile does not know how to resolve relative dirs, which
> results in html doc being installed in
> $(git-build-root)/Documentation/share/doc/git-doc.
>
> Fix this by not exporting htmldir from Makefile since this allows
> Documentation/Makefile to compute htmldir from prefix.
>
> Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
> ---
> An alternative would be to teach Documentation/Makefile to take the
> relative htmldir and make it into an absolute path. But the approach I'm
> taking with this patch as analogous to how mandir is handled, with the
> same draw back. But all is well as long as the build monkey messes with
> prefix only.

Makes sense. There is no point handling mandir and htmldir differently.

-- Hannes