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

[Jeff King <peff@peff.net>]

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@