# [PATCH] fix the installation path for html documentation
3 messages from 2009-02-10 to 2009-02-11. Participants: Michael J Gruber, Johannes Sixt, Junio C Hamano.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/17703
## Michael J Gruber, 2009-02-10 15:14
Subject: [PATCH] fix the installation path for html documentation
Message-ID: <1234278853-25452-1-git-send-email-git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/1234278853-25452-1-git-send-email-git%40drmicha.warpmail.net
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Since 026fa0d5ad9538ca76838070861531c037d7b9ba (Move computation of
absolute paths from Makefile to runtime (in preparation for
RUNTIME_PREFIX) the installation of html doc was broken:
Documentation/Makefile does not know how to resolve relative dirs, which
results in html doc being installed in
$(git-build-root)/Documentation/share/doc/git-doc.
Fix this by not exporting htmldir from Makefile since this allows
Documentation/Makefile to compute htmldir from prefix.
Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber
---
An alternative would be to teach Documentation/Makefile to take the
relative htmldir and make it into an absolute path. But the approach I'm
taking with this patch as analogous to how mandir is handled, with the
same draw back. But all is well as long as the build monkey messes with
prefix only.
Makefile | 2 +-
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 27b9569..862b96c 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -228,7 +228,7 @@ GITWEB_FAVICON = git-favicon.png
GITWEB_SITE_HEADER =
GITWEB_SITE_FOOTER =
-export prefix bindir sharedir htmldir sysconfdir
+export prefix bindir sharedir sysconfdir
CC = gcc
AR = ar
--
1.6.1.2.253.ga34a
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## Johannes Sixt, 2009-02-10 20:25
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix the installation path for html documentation
Message-ID: <200902102125.05287.j6t@kdbg.org>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/200902102125.05287.j6t%40kdbg.org
In-Reply-To: <1234278853-25452-1-git-send-email-git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
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On Dienstag, 10. Februar 2009, Michael J Gruber wrote:
> Since 026fa0d5ad9538ca76838070861531c037d7b9ba (Move computation of
> absolute paths from Makefile to runtime (in preparation for
> RUNTIME_PREFIX) the installation of html doc was broken:
> Documentation/Makefile does not know how to resolve relative dirs, which
> results in html doc being installed in
> $(git-build-root)/Documentation/share/doc/git-doc.
>
> Fix this by not exporting htmldir from Makefile since this allows
> Documentation/Makefile to compute htmldir from prefix.
>
> Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber
> ---
> An alternative would be to teach Documentation/Makefile to take the
> relative htmldir and make it into an absolute path. But the approach I'm
> taking with this patch as analogous to how mandir is handled, with the
> same draw back. But all is well as long as the build monkey messes with
> prefix only.
Makes sense. There is no point handling mandir and htmldir differently.
-- Hannes
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## Junio C Hamano, 2009-02-11 18:39
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix the installation path for html documentation
Message-ID: <7vr624es1z.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/7vr624es1z.fsf%40gitster.siamese.dyndns.org
In-Reply-To: <200902102125.05287.j6t@kdbg.org>
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Johannes Sixt writes:
> Makes sense. There is no point handling mandir and htmldir differently.
Thanks, both.
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