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Re: `./configure --XXdir=` ignored?

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Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@imag.fr>
Date
Feb 26, 2009, 17:33 UTC
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Tim Visher <tim.visher@gmail.com> writes:
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> Hello Everyone,
>
> 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

Did you actually type --XXdir, or is this XX just a way to mean something else? I don't see --XXdir mentionned anywhere.

I use "./configure --prefix=$HOME/some/dir" and it works fine (make install-html installs to $prefix/share/doc/).

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Matthieu
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  5. Matthieu MoyFeb 26, 2009
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