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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de>
Cc: gitzilla@gmail.com, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 026fa0d5ad Breaks installs with absolue $(gitexecdir) and $(template_dir) variables using older GNU makes
Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2009 23:04:39 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vab91icu0.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4985E8E1.90303@gmail.com> (A. Large Angry's message of "Sun, 01 Feb 2009 13:24:33 -0500")

A Large Angry SCM <gitzilla@gmail.com> writes:

> In 026fa0d5ad9538ca76838070861531c037d7b9ba, "Move computation of
> absolute paths from Makefile to runtime (in preparation for
> RUNTIME_PREFIX)", the following change was made to the Makefile. The
> problem is that $(abspath names...) is a relatively recent addition to
> GNU make and when used in an older GNU make, the test always fails
> resulting incorrect installation dirs for the templates and commands.

Is there anything being done on this issue?

I could revert ed096c4 (Merge branch 'sp/runtime-prefix', 2009-01-31), but
I'd rather not if we can avoid it.

  reply	other threads:[~2009-02-05  7:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-02-01 18:24 026fa0d5ad Breaks installs with absolue $(gitexecdir) and $(template_dir) variables using older GNU makes A Large Angry SCM
2009-02-05  7:04 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2009-02-05  7:13   ` Steffen Prohaska
2009-02-05  7:35 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-02-05  7:38   ` Pascal Obry
2009-02-05  7:53     ` Junio C Hamano
2009-02-05  7:57       ` Pascal Obry
2009-02-05  8:01       ` Junio C Hamano
2009-02-05  7:44   ` Junio C Hamano
2009-02-05  8:18 ` [PATCH] Makefile: fix misdetection of relative pathnames Junio C Hamano
2009-02-05 12:27   ` Johannes Sixt
2009-02-05 17:19     ` Junio C Hamano
2009-02-05 22:16   ` A Large Angry SCM

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