From: Kacper Kornet <kornet@camk.edu.pl>
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2011 21:22:18 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Honor sysconfdir when set as an configure option
Message-ID: <20110428212218.GG4833@camk.edu.pl>
In-Reply-To: <7vzkna2ika.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 02:05:09PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Kacper Kornet <kornet@camk.edu.pl> writes:

> > ./configure can be run with option --sysconfdir=...
> > and Makefile should respect that choice.

> Thanks.  That statement is not wrong per-se, but your patch will result in
> git_etcdir always set to the same as $(sysconfdir) that is an absolute
> path, which in turn would mean that the build product with prefix set to
> something other than /usr won't relocate well, no?

Only when ./configure is used. But autotools do not support relative
paths, as far as I know. When autotools are not used, it is still
possible to have relative path in git_etcdir.

-- 
  Kacper Kornet