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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Makefile: do not export mandir/htmldir/infodir
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2013 15:16:51 -0800
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Cc: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>, git@vger.kernel.org,
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Junio C Hamano wrote:

> These are defined in the main Makefile to be funny values that are
> optionally relative to an unspecified location that is determined at
> runtime.
[...]
> A longer term fix is to introduce runtime_{man,html,info}dir variables
> to hold these funny values, and make {man,html,info}dir variables
> to have real paths whose default values begin with $(prefix), but
> as a first step, stop exporting them from the top-level Makefile.

Makes sense.

Reported-by: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>