Re: `./configure --XXdir=` ignored?

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Feb 26, 2009, 15:15 UTC
Message-ID: <20090226151535.GA17402@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <c115fd3c0902260709i21efa98am1e8b55462e1a5d66@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 10:09:57AM -0500, Tim Visher wrote:

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> On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 10:00 AM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> 
> > The configure support is notoriously incomplete
> 
> Would it be easier for me to just build the documentation and then
> install it by hand then?  Is that even possible?

No, there's Makefile support:

  make htmldir=/path/to/wherever install-html

but the autoconf stuff wasn't hooking into it properly (which is what the patch I sent should do).

What I meant by "incomplete" is that most people just use the Makefile directly without autoconf, so we never notice when bugs like this are hiding. Thus the bugs tend to hang around for a while until somebody submits a patch (which I was hoping you would do after getting it to work).

-Peff