From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:23:21 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Allow INSTALL, bindir, mandir to be set in main Makefile
Message-ID: <7vy7vfrfc6.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <200606291835.53788.jnareb@gmail.com>

Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> writes:

> Part of autoconf series, but independent.

I'd like to take something like this, independently from
"optionally managing config.mak with autoconf" series.

> Should probably be split into two patches:
>  * first with export + '?='
>  * second renaming man1 and man7 to man1dir and man7dir

And I think it is probably a good idea to somehow keep people's
configurations that have been overriding man1 and man7 if
possible.  Otherwise things would regress for them.