From: Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de>
Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2009 07:13:30 GMT
Subject: Re: 026fa0d5ad Breaks installs with absolue $(gitexecdir) and $(template_dir) variables using older GNU makes
Message-ID: <54B6E81F-FCC5-453D-9F38-9F29C41F5613@zib.de>
In-Reply-To: <7vab91icu0.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>


On Feb 5, 2009, at 8:04 AM, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> A Large Angry SCM <gitzilla@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> In 026fa0d5ad9538ca76838070861531c037d7b9ba, "Move computation of
>> absolute paths from Makefile to runtime (in preparation for
>> RUNTIME_PREFIX)", the following change was made to the Makefile. The
>> problem is that $(abspath names...) is a relatively recent addition  
>> to
>> GNU make and when used in an older GNU make, the test always fails
>> resulting incorrect installation dirs for the templates and commands.
>
> Is there anything being done on this issue?

Not yet.  I haven't had time.


> I could revert ed096c4 (Merge branch 'sp/runtime-prefix',  
> 2009-01-31), but
> I'd rather not if we can avoid it.

I'll propose a fix on Saturday.

	Steffen