Re: 026fa0d5ad Breaks installs with absolue $(gitexecdir) and $(template_dir) variables using older GNU makes

From

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Date

Feb 5, 2009, 07:35 UTC

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<7v63jpibe8.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

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A Large Angry SCM <gitzilla@gmail.com> writes:

> The new test is also wrong; (for *nix systems) in that it really wants
> to test if the first character is a '/' but GNU make doesn't have a
> way to do that directly.

Hmph.  Isn't it just the matter of doing something silly like this?

ifeq ($(filter /%,$(template_dir)),)
	... it does not start with a slash
else
	... it does
endif