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Re: [PATCH] Documentation/Makefile: remove extra /

From
Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date
May 25, 2006, 20:45 UTC
Message-ID
<7v3bexu930.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
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<20060525123746.GA14325@admingilde.org>
Martin Waitz <tali@admingilde.org> writes:
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> As both DESTDIR and the prefix are supposed to be absolute pathnames
> they can simply be concatenated without an extra / (like in the main Makefile).
> The extra slash may even break installation on Windows.
>
> Signed-off-by: Martin Waitz <tali@admingilde.org>
> ---
>  Documentation/Makefile |    6 +++---
>  1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/Makefile b/Documentation/Makefile
> index 2a08f59..2b0efe7 100644
> --- a/Documentation/Makefile
> +++ b/Documentation/Makefile
> @@ -52,9 +52,9 @@ man1: $(DOC_MAN1)
>  man7: $(DOC_MAN7)
>  
>  install: man
> -	$(INSTALL) -d -m755 $(DESTDIR)/$(man1) $(DESTDIR)/$(man7)
> -	$(INSTALL) $(DOC_MAN1) $(DESTDIR)/$(man1)
> -	$(INSTALL) $(DOC_MAN7) $(DESTDIR)/$(man7)
> +	$(INSTALL) -d -m755 $(DESTDIR)$(man1) $(DESTDIR)$(man7)
> +	$(INSTALL) $(DOC_MAN1) $(DESTDIR)$(man1)
> +	$(INSTALL) $(DOC_MAN7) $(DESTDIR)$(man7)

This unfortunately breaks a workaround I did in the main Makefile for dist-doc target, but I agree it is a good change.

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