Re: [PATCH] Makefile: do not export mandir/htmldir/infodir

From

Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>

Date

Feb 12, 2013, 23:16 UTC

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<20130212231651.GI12240@google.com>

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Junio C Hamano wrote:

> These are defined in the main Makefile to be funny values that are
> optionally relative to an unspecified location that is determined at
> runtime.

[...]

> A longer term fix is to introduce runtime_{man,html,info}dir variables
> to hold these funny values, and make {man,html,info}dir variables
> to have real paths whose default values begin with $(prefix), but
> as a first step, stop exporting them from the top-level Makefile.

Makes sense.

Reported-by: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>