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Re: [PATCH 1/1] Honor $(prefix) set in config.mak* when defining ETC_GIT* and sysconfdir

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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May 3, 2011, 17:32 UTC
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Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net> writes:
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> Please do not set Mail-Followup-To!! It makes communication on this list
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> Am 4/28/2011 21:27, schrieb Kacper Kornet:
>> Definitions of ETC_GITCONFIG, ETC_GITATTRIBUTES and sysconfdir depend on
>> value of prefix. As prefix can be changed in config.mak.autogen, all if
>> blocks with conditions based on prefix should be placed after the file
>> is included in Makefile.
> ...
> Does this patch do anything useful? After the patch is applied, sysconfdir
> is set-but-not-used. Therefore, you can remove the assignments. But then
> you lose the reference to $(prefix) that the commit message claims is so
> important. Puzzled...

The only thing it does is to to allow you to set prefix in config.mak and then have it propaget to the selection of ETC_GITCONFIG (if prefix is /usr, then it is always /etc/gitconfig, otherwise it is always etc/gitconfig). The importance of prefix is not that the value is prefixed to ETC_GIT*, but it is used in the conditional to choose between the two.

We can get rid of assignments to sysconfdir in that sense. But you spotted a regression. If sysconfdir is set to somewhere else, even if you set prefix to /usr, we should set ETC_GIT* using the value given to sysconfdir. The original code did so, but the patch lost it.

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Message 9 of 26 in “Respect definition of prefix from autotools in ETC_GITCONFIG and ETC_GITATTRIBUTES”
  1. Respect definition of prefix from autotools in ETC_GITCONFIG and ETC_GITATTRIBUTESKacper Kornet, Apr 28, 2011
  2. Junio C HamanoApr 28, 2011
  3. Kacper KornetApr 28, 2011
  4. 1/1 Honor $(prefix) set in config.mak* when defining ETC_GIT* and sysconfdirKacper Kornet, Apr 28, 2011
  5. Honor sysconfdir when set as an configure optionKacper Kornet, Apr 28, 2011
  6. Junio C HamanoApr 28, 2011
  7. Kacper KornetApr 28, 2011
  8. Johannes SixtMay 3, 2011
  9. Junio C HamanoMay 3, 2011
  10. Johannes SixtMay 4, 2011
  11. Kacper KornetMay 4, 2011
  12. Johannes SixtMay 4, 2011
  13. Junio C HamanoMay 4, 2011
  14. Junio C HamanoMay 5, 2011
  15. Johannes SixtMay 5, 2011
  16. Junio C HamanoMay 5, 2011
  17. Johannes SixtMay 6, 2011
  18. Kacper KornetMay 5, 2011
  19. Johannes SixtMay 5, 2011
  20. Kacper KornetMay 5, 2011
  21. Junio C HamanoMay 5, 2011
  22. Johannes SixtMay 9, 2011
  23. Kacper KornetMay 9, 2011
  24. Kacper KornetMay 27, 2011
  25. Kacper KornetMay 5, 2011
  26. Kacper KornetMay 4, 2011

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