# [PATCH] Fix `make install` when configured with autoconf

2 messages from 2013-03-05 to 2013-03-05. Participants: Kirill Smelkov, Junio C Hamano.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/33076

## Kirill Smelkov, 2013-03-05 12:43

Subject: [PATCH] Fix `make install` when configured with autoconf
Message-ID: <1362487405-32044-1-git-send-email-kirr@mns.spb.ru>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/1362487405-32044-1-git-send-email-kirr%40mns.spb.ru

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Commit d8cf908c (config.mak.in: remove unused definitions) removed

    exec_prefix = @exec_prefix@

from config.mak.in, because nobody directly used ${exec_prefix}, but
overlooked that other autoconf definitions could indirectly expand that
variable.

For example the following snippet from config.mak.in

    prefix = @prefix@
    bindir = @bindir@
    gitexecdir = @libexecdir@/git-core
    datarootdir = @datarootdir@
    template_dir = @datadir@/git-core/templates
    sysconfdir = @sysconfdir@

is expanded to

    prefix = /home/kirr/local/git
    bindir = ${exec_prefix}/bin                             <-- HERE
    gitexecdir = ${exec_prefix}/libexec/git-core            <--
    datarootdir = ${prefix}/share
    template_dir = ${datarootdir}/git-core/templates
    sysconfdir = ${prefix}/etc

on my system, after `configure --prefix=$HOME/local/git`

and withot exec_prefix being defined there I get an error on
install:

    install -d -m 755 '/bin'
    install -d -m 755 '/libexec/git-core'
    install: cannot create directory `/libexec': Permission denied
    Makefile:2292: recipe for target `install' failed

Fix it.

Signed-off-by: Kirill Smelkov <kirr@mns.spb.ru>
---
 config.mak.in | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/config.mak.in b/config.mak.in
index 7440687..e6a6d0f 100644
--- a/config.mak.in
+++ b/config.mak.in
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ PACKAGE_TARNAME = @PACKAGE_TARNAME@
 #INSTALL = @INSTALL@		# needs install-sh or install.sh in sources
 
 prefix = @prefix@
+exec_prefix = @exec_prefix@
 bindir = @bindir@
 gitexecdir = @libexecdir@/git-core
 datarootdir = @datarootdir@
-- 
1.8.2.rc2.353.gd2380b4

```

## Junio C Hamano, 2013-03-05 16:56

Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix `make install` when configured with autoconf
Message-ID: <7vvc95u6o2.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/7vvc95u6o2.fsf%40alter.siamese.dyndns.org
In-Reply-To: <1362487405-32044-1-git-send-email-kirr@mns.spb.ru>

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Thanks.

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