From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2013 23:16:51 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Makefile: do not export mandir/htmldir/infodir
Message-ID: <20130212231651.GI12240@google.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vehgldt8e.fsf_-_@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

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>