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[PATCH v2] Makefile: Make 'configure --with-expat=path' actually work

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SBSerge van den Boom <svdb@stack.nl>
Date
Jan 28, 2009, 20:43 UTC
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While the configure script sets the EXPATDIR environment variable to whatever value was passed to its option --with-expat as the prefix of the location of the expat library and headers, the Makefile ignored it. This patch fixes this bug.

Signed-off-by: Serge van den Boom <svdb@stack.nl>
---
On Wed, 28 Jan 2009, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> Serge van den Boom <svdb@stack.nl> writes:
> > The prefix specified with the --with-expat option of configure was not
> > actually used.
> 
> I see configure.ac already has support for autodetection but I realized it
> only after running "git grep EXPATDIR".  "Even though the configure script
> knows how to autodetect presence of the expat library and set EXPATDIR to
> the prefix of the location it was found, the Makefile ignored it and only
> honoured NO_EXPAT" might have been a better way to describe the breakage
> the patch fixes.

That's not entirely right, unless I'm missing something. The configure script does not try to detect expat itself, though it passes on the argument to --with-expat to the Makefile, via the EXPATDIR environment variable.

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> If you look at the Makefile, you will notice a sequence of comments like
> this:
> 
>     # Define NO_CURL if you do not have libcurl installed.  git-http-pull and
>     # git-http-push are not built, and you cannot use http:// and https://
>     # transports.
>     #
>     # Define CURLDIR=/foo/bar if your curl header and library files are in
>     # /foo/bar/include and /foo/bar/lib directories.
>     #
> 
> Please add one for EXPATDIR, just after "Define NO_EXPAT if ...".  People
> who do not run ./configure but add their own customizations in config.mak
> should benefit from your patch as well.
Ok.
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 9d451cf..a7310f2 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -23,6 +23,9 @@ all::
 # Define NO_EXPAT if you do not have expat installed.  git-http-push is
 # not built, and you cannot push using http:// and https:// transports.
 #
+# Define EXPATDIR=/foo/bar if your expat header and library files are in
+# /foo/bar/include and /foo/bar/lib directories.
+#
 # Define NO_D_INO_IN_DIRENT if you don't have d_ino in your struct dirent.
 #
 # Define NO_D_TYPE_IN_DIRENT if your platform defines DT_UNKNOWN but lacks
@@ -850,7 +853,12 @@ else
 		endif
 	endif
 	ifndef NO_EXPAT
-		EXPAT_LIBEXPAT = -lexpat
+		ifdef EXPATDIR
+			BASIC_CFLAGS += -I$(EXPATDIR)/include
+			EXPAT_LIBEXPAT = -L$(EXPATDIR)/$(lib) $(CC_LD_DYNPATH)$(EXPATDIR)/$(lib) -lexpat
+		else
+			EXPAT_LIBEXPAT = -lexpat
+		endif
 	endif
 endif
 
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  1. Makefile: Make 'configure --with-expat=path' actually workSerge van den Boom, Jan 25, 2009
  2. Junio C HamanoJan 28, 2009
  3. Makefile: Make 'configure --with-expat=path' actually workSerge van den Boom, Jan 28, 2009
  4. Junio C HamanoJan 28, 2009

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