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Re: [PATCH 1/1] Honor $(prefix) set in config.mak* when defining ETC_GIT* and sysconfdir

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Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
Date
May 6, 2011, 07:03 UTC
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Am 5/5/2011 18:17, schrieb Junio C Hamano:
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> The point of this approach is to make a progress without regressing, and
> the (minimum) progress needed to be made that comes from the beginning of
> this discussion is that setting $(prefix) from the command line of make
> works but it does not when it is set in config.mak (or config.mak.autogen
> which in turn is added by running "./configure --prefix=...").
Ah! That's a piece of informatin that I was missing.

To fix that, wouldn't it have been sufficient to just move the ifeq($(prefix),/usr) conditional past -include config.mak, without any other changes?

(But I'm mostly clueless about when which make variables from what source override what.)

-- Hannes
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Message 17 of 26 in “Respect definition of prefix from autotools in ETC_GITCONFIG and ETC_GITATTRIBUTES”
  1. Respect definition of prefix from autotools in ETC_GITCONFIG and ETC_GITATTRIBUTESKacper Kornet, Apr 28, 2011
  2. Junio C HamanoApr 28, 2011
  3. Kacper KornetApr 28, 2011
  4. 1/1 Honor $(prefix) set in config.mak* when defining ETC_GIT* and sysconfdirKacper Kornet, Apr 28, 2011
  5. Honor sysconfdir when set as an configure optionKacper Kornet, Apr 28, 2011
  6. Junio C HamanoApr 28, 2011
  7. Kacper KornetApr 28, 2011
  8. Johannes SixtMay 3, 2011
  9. Junio C HamanoMay 3, 2011
  10. Johannes SixtMay 4, 2011
  11. Kacper KornetMay 4, 2011
  12. Johannes SixtMay 4, 2011
  13. Junio C HamanoMay 4, 2011
  14. Junio C HamanoMay 5, 2011
  15. Johannes SixtMay 5, 2011
  16. Junio C HamanoMay 5, 2011
  17. Johannes SixtMay 6, 2011
  18. Kacper KornetMay 5, 2011
  19. Johannes SixtMay 5, 2011
  20. Kacper KornetMay 5, 2011
  21. Junio C HamanoMay 5, 2011
  22. Johannes SixtMay 9, 2011
  23. Kacper KornetMay 9, 2011
  24. Kacper KornetMay 27, 2011
  25. Kacper KornetMay 5, 2011
  26. Kacper KornetMay 4, 2011

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