From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff King Subject: Re: `./configure --XXdir=` ignored? Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 10:00:13 -0500 Message-ID: <20090226150013.GA9785@coredump.intra.peff.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Tim Visher X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Feb 26 16:02:04 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Lchk9-00089r-Ul for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Thu, 26 Feb 2009 16:01:46 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754186AbZBZPAT (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Feb 2009 10:00:19 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754045AbZBZPAS (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Feb 2009 10:00:18 -0500 Received: from peff.net ([208.65.91.99]:39859 "EHLO peff.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753061AbZBZPAR (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Feb 2009 10:00:17 -0500 Received: (qmail 5350 invoked by uid 107); 26 Feb 2009 15:00:41 -0000 Received: from coredump.intra.peff.net (HELO coredump.intra.peff.net) (10.0.0.2) by peff.net (qpsmtpd/0.40) with (AES128-SHA encrypted) SMTP; Thu, 26 Feb 2009 10:00:41 -0500 Received: by coredump.intra.peff.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Thu, 26 Feb 2009 10:00:13 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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@