# `./configure --XXdir=` ignored? 6 messages from 2009-02-26 to 2009-02-26. Participants: Tim Visher, Jeff King, Matthieu Moy. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/18031 ## Tim Visher, 2009-02-26 14:48 Subject: `./configure --XXdir=` ignored? Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/c115fd3c0902260648g3cc9bfeap58823e53a9dc72e6%40mail.gmail.com ``` 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 make all man info html make install install-man install-info install-html But other than the binaries (and I'm not even totally convinced they got in correctly) and the man pages, everything else seems to be attempting to go to the typical places in /usr/local. What am I doing wrong? -- In Christ, Timmy V. http://burningones.com/ http://five.sentenc.es/ - Spend less time on e-mail ``` ## Jeff King, 2009-02-26 15:00 Subject: Re: `./configure --XXdir=` ignored? Message-ID: <20090226150013.GA9785@coredump.intra.peff.net> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20090226150013.GA9785%40coredump.intra.peff.net In-Reply-To: ``` 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 > > But other than the binaries (and I'm not even totally convinced they > got in correctly) and the man pages, everything else seems to be > attempting to go to the typical places in /usr/local. > > What am I doing wrong? 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@ ``` ## Tim Visher, 2009-02-26 15:09 Subject: Re: `./configure --XXdir=` ignored? Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/c115fd3c0902260709i21efa98am1e8b55462e1a5d66%40mail.gmail.com In-Reply-To: <20090226150013.GA9785@coredump.intra.peff.net> ``` On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 10:00 AM, Jeff King wrote: > The configure support is notoriously incomplete Would it be easier for me to just build the documentation and then install it by hand then? Is that even possible? -- In Christ, Timmy V. http://burningones.com/ http://five.sentenc.es/ - Spend less time on e-mail ``` ## Jeff King, 2009-02-26 15:15 Subject: Re: `./configure --XXdir=` ignored? Message-ID: <20090226151535.GA17402@coredump.intra.peff.net> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20090226151535.GA17402%40coredump.intra.peff.net In-Reply-To: ``` On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 10:09:57AM -0500, Tim Visher wrote: > On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 10:00 AM, Jeff King wrote: > > > The configure support is notoriously incomplete > > Would it be easier for me to just build the documentation and then > install it by hand then? Is that even possible? No, there's Makefile support: make htmldir=/path/to/wherever install-html but the autoconf stuff wasn't hooking into it properly (which is what the patch I sent should do). What I meant by "incomplete" is that most people just use the Makefile directly without autoconf, so we never notice when bugs like this are hiding. Thus the bugs tend to hang around for a while until somebody submits a patch (which I was hoping you would do after getting it to work). -Peff ``` ## Matthieu Moy, 2009-02-26 17:33 Subject: Re: `./configure --XXdir=` ignored? Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/vpq4oyht85f.fsf%40bauges.imag.fr In-Reply-To: ``` Tim Visher writes: > 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 $prefix/share/doc/). -- Matthieu ``` ## Tim Visher, 2009-02-26 19:04 Subject: Re: `./configure --XXdir=` ignored? Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/c115fd3c0902261104x7f867d07v5ba917adbc826435%40mail.gmail.com In-Reply-To: ``` On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 12:33 PM, Matthieu Moy wrote: > Tim Visher writes: > I attempted to do this through >> >> make configure >> ./configure --XXdir=/full/path/to/dir > > Did you actually type --XXdir, or is this XX just a way to mean > something else? I don't see --XXdir mentionned anywhere. Yes, it was just a placeholder. I actually typed things like --htmldir, --mandir, --bindir, etc. > > I use "./configure --prefix=$HOME/some/dir" and it works fine (make > install-html installs to $prefix/share/doc/). This works for me as well. However, I was hoping for finer tuned control than that through configure. IE ~/bin ~/man ~/info etc. -- In Christ, Timmy V. http://burningones.com/ http://five.sentenc.es/ - Spend less time on e-mail ```