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From: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Kacper Kornet <kornet@camk.edu.pl>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] Honor $(prefix) set in config.mak* when defining ETC_GIT* and sysconfdir
Date: Fri, 06 May 2011 09:03:41 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DC39D4D.1000709@viscovery.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vy62l9l5l.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Am 5/5/2011 18:17, schrieb Junio C Hamano:
> The point of this approach is to make a progress without regressing, and
> the (minimum) progress needed to be made that comes from the beginning of
> this discussion is that setting $(prefix) from the command line of make
> works but it does not when it is set in config.mak (or config.mak.autogen
> which in turn is added by running "./configure --prefix=...").

Ah! That's a piece of informatin that I was missing.

To fix that, wouldn't it have been sufficient to just move the
ifeq($(prefix),/usr) conditional past -include config.mak, without any
other changes?

(But I'm mostly clueless about when which make variables from what source
override what.)

-- Hannes

  reply	other threads:[~2011-05-06  7:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-04-28  2:29 [PATCH] Respect definition of prefix from autotools in ETC_GITCONFIG and ETC_GITATTRIBUTES Kacper Kornet
2011-04-28 16:54 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-04-28 17:49   ` Kacper Kornet
2011-04-28 19:27   ` [PATCH 1/1] Honor $(prefix) set in config.mak* when defining ETC_GIT* and sysconfdir Kacper Kornet
2011-04-28 20:01     ` [PATCH] Honor sysconfdir when set as an configure option Kacper Kornet
2011-04-28 21:05       ` Junio C Hamano
2011-04-28 21:22         ` Kacper Kornet
2011-05-03  6:42     ` [PATCH 1/1] Honor $(prefix) set in config.mak* when defining ETC_GIT* and sysconfdir Johannes Sixt
2011-05-03 17:32       ` Junio C Hamano
2011-05-04  5:52         ` Johannes Sixt
2011-05-04 13:58           ` Kacper Kornet
2011-05-04 14:39             ` Johannes Sixt
2011-05-04 18:21               ` Junio C Hamano
2011-05-05  2:26                 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-05-05  5:58                   ` Johannes Sixt
2011-05-05 16:17                     ` Junio C Hamano
2011-05-06  7:03                       ` Johannes Sixt [this message]
2011-05-05 14:29                   ` Kacper Kornet
2011-05-05 14:45                     ` Johannes Sixt
2011-05-05 15:00                       ` Kacper Kornet
2011-05-05 15:46                         ` Junio C Hamano
2011-05-09  8:24                           ` Johannes Sixt
2011-05-09 11:56                             ` Kacper Kornet
2011-05-27  8:17                             ` Kacper Kornet
2011-05-05 15:25                       ` Kacper Kornet
2011-05-04 14:29         ` Kacper Kornet

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