From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano 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 Message-ID: <7vab91icu0.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <4985E8E1.90303@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: gitzilla@gmail.com, git@vger.kernel.org To: Steffen Prohaska X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Feb 05 08:09:20 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 1LUyMS-0004g1-1A for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Thu, 05 Feb 2009 08:09:20 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751963AbZBEHEs (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Feb 2009 02:04:48 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751953AbZBEHEs (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Feb 2009 02:04:48 -0500 Received: from a-sasl-quonix.sasl.smtp.pobox.com ([208.72.237.25]:56642 "EHLO sasl.smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751719AbZBEHEr (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Feb 2009 02:04:47 -0500 Received: from localhost.localdomain (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by b-sasl-quonix.sasl.smtp.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id CFC8E2A78C; Thu, 5 Feb 2009 02:04:44 -0500 (EST) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [68.225.240.211]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by b-sasl-quonix.sasl.smtp.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id F11752A789; Thu, 5 Feb 2009 02:04:40 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <4985E8E1.90303@gmail.com> (A. Large Angry's message of "Sun, 01 Feb 2009 13:24:33 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 44845E62-F353-11DD-98D0-6F7C8D1D4FD0-77302942!a-sasl-quonix.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: A Large Angry SCM 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.