From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2009 07:04:39 GMT
Subject: Re: 026fa0d5ad Breaks installs with absolue $(gitexecdir) and $(template_dir) variables using older GNU makes
Message-ID: <7vab91icu0.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <4985E8E1.90303@gmail.com>

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?

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