[PATCH] autoconf: Add limited support for --htmldir
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- David Syzdek <david@syzdek.net>
- Date
- Feb 28, 2009, 07:23 UTC
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- <9a0027270902272323y44091bfakcb640f168c33a824@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 4:57 PM, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Sat, 28 Feb 2009, David Syzdek wrote: >> On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 3:33 PM, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote: >>> On Thu, 26 Feb 2009, Jeff King wrote: >>>> On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 09:48:29AM -0500, Tim Visher wrote: >>>> >>>>> I'm working on getting git 1.6.2-rc2 built. I have a bin, man, info, >>>>> and html directory in my home folder that I'd like to use as the >>>>> defaults for git. I attempted to do this through >>>>> >>>>> make configure >>>>> ./configure --XXdir=/full/path/to/dir >>>>> make all man info html >>>>> make install install-man install-info install-html > [...] > >>>> The configure support is notoriously incomplete (AFAIK, very few of the >>>> active developers use it regularly). Probably you need something like >>>> this (but I didn't test it): >>>> >>>> diff --git a/config.mak.in b/config.mak.in >>>> index 7cce0c1..505d5c7 100644 >>>> --- a/config.mak.in >>>> +++ b/config.mak.in >>>> @@ -18,6 +18,8 @@ datarootdir = @datarootdir@ >>>> template_dir = @datadir@/git-core/templates >>>> >>>> mandir=@mandir@ >>>> +htmldir=@htmldir@ >>>> +infodir=@infodir@ >>>> >>>> srcdir = @srcdir@ >>>> VPATH = @srcdir@ >>> >>> Well, the infodir part works trivially, because autoconf (and >>> therefore ./configure script) has support for --infodir=DIR. >>> Below there is patch that adds that, with the commit message. >>> >>> But it is more difficult with respect to --htmldir. I am not autoconf >>> hacker, so I don't know how to add support for having --htmldir=DIR in >>> ./configure (in configure.ac). What can be done is to derive htmldir >>> in config.mak.in from other sources, for example: >> >> Autoconf add support for --htmldir in version 2.60. Here is a snippet from >> the help message from a configure script generated with 2.60: >> >> --datarootdir=DIR read-only arch.-independent data root [PREFIX/share] >> >> --docdir=DIR documentation root [DATAROOTDIR/doc/PROJECT_TARNAME] >> >> --htmldir=DIR html documentation [DOCDIR] >> >> >> The current configure.ac requires autoconf version>= 2.59, bumping the >> requirement to autoconf>= 2.60 would allow the autoconf variable $(htmldir) >> to be used. Bumping the required version of autoconf will affect users with >> older linux installations who use git to upgrade git; and may affect the >> maintainer's ability to create a "release" tarball if he has an older >> version of autoconf. > > Well, I have autoconf 2.59, so I cannot test the following patch > (and I am not sure if it is welcome). And of course it needs commit > message, at least with explanation why bumping required version of > autoconf was needed.
I tested the below patch using autoconf 2.59 and autoconf 2.62. If the version of autoconf used to create the configure script supports the `--htmldir' option then the htmldir is set by either autoconf or the user defined value. If the version of autoconf does not support the `--htmldir' option, then htmldir defaults to [DATADIR/doc/git].
This way a newer version of autoconf is not required for users on distros more than a year or so old, however users on newer distros are able to use the '--html' flag.
-- >8 -- Add support for --htmdir=DIR [DATAROOT/doc/git] if the configure script is created with autoconf 2.60 or higher. htmldir defaults to [DATADIR/doc/git] if the configure script is created with autoconf 2.59 or lower.
Signed-off-by: David M. Syzdek <david@syzdek.net> --- config.mak.in | 1 + configure.ac | 7 +++++++ 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/config.mak.in b/config.mak.in index 7cce0c1..5ae076e 100644 --- a/config.mak.in +++ b/config.mak.in @@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ datarootdir = @datarootdir@ template_dir = @datadir@/git-core/templates mandir=@mandir@ +htmldir=@htmldir@ srcdir = @srcdir@ VPATH = @srcdir@ diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac index 082a03d..6e16034 100644 --- a/configure.ac +++ b/configure.ac @@ -107,6 +107,13 @@ AS_HELP_STRING([],[Bare --with-tcltk will make the GUI part only if]) AS_HELP_STRING([],[Tcl/Tk interpreter will be found in a system.]),\ GIT_PARSE_WITH(tcltk)) # +# Define ${htmldir} if the configure script was created with a version of +# autoconf older than 2.60. +if test "x${htmldir}" = "x";then + htmldir="${datadir}/doc/${PACKAGE_TARNAME}" + AC_SUBST(htmldir, [${htmldir}]) +fi +# ## Checks for programs.
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