From: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2013 09:42:41 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Bugfix: undefined htmldir in config.mak.autogen
Message-ID: <20130220094240.GB5011@serenity.lan>
In-Reply-To: <7v4nh750v3.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 03:40:16PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> I am not sure if such a layout can be actually used for installing,
> though.  Didn't we see some issues around the relativeness of
> htmldir and mandir vs passing them down to Documentation/Makefile,
> or is it not an issue when ./configure and config.mak.autogen is
> used?

If these variables are set explicitly in config.mak.autogen (or indeed
config.mak) then these values should override the ones calculated in the
Makefiles so that we avoid that problem - the problem occurs if the
relative paths from the top-level Makefile are exported to
Documentation/Makefile.


John