Re: `./configure --XXdir=` ignored?
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Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
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- Feb 26, 2009, 15:00 UTC
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On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 09:48:29AM -0500, Tim Visher wrote:
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> 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 > > But other than the binaries (and I'm not even totally convinced they > got in correctly) and the man pages, everything else seems to be > attempting to go to the typical places in /usr/local. > > What am I doing wrong?
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@