Re: [PATCH] autoconf: Add support for --infodir
From: David Syzdek <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:46:18
Possibly related (same subject, not in this thread)
- 2016-06-15 · Re: [PATCH] autoconf: Add support for --infodir · Jakub Narebski <hidden>
On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 3:33 PM, Jakub Narebski [off-list ref] wrote:
On Thu, 26 Feb 2009, Jeff King wrote:quoted
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 09:48:29AM -0500, Tim Visher wrote:quoted
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?Why don't you use simply --prefix=DIR?quoted
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@Well, the infodir part works trivially, because autoconf (and therefore ./configure script) has support for --infodir=DIR. Below there is patch that adds that, with the commit message. But it is more difficult with respect to --htmldir. I am not autoconf hacker, so I don't know how to add support for having --htmldir=DIR in ./configure (in configure.ac). What can be done is to derive htmldir in config.mak.in from other sources, for example:
Autoconf add support for --htmldir in version 2.60. Here is a snippet from the help message from a configure script generated with 2.60: --datarootdir=DIR read-only arch.-independent data root [PREFIX/share] --docdir=DIR documentation root [DATAROOTDIR/doc/PROJECT_TARNAME] --htmldir=DIR html documentation [DOCDIR] The current configure.ac requires autoconf version >= 2.59, bumping the requirement to autoconf >= 2.60 would allow the autoconf variable $(htmldir) to be used. Bumping the required version of autoconf will affect users with older linux installations who use git to upgrade git; and may affect the maintainer's ability to create a "release" tarball if he has an older version of autoconf.
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htmldir=@datadir@/doc/git or something like that. -- >8 -- Now that we actually (can) install some info files, and that $infodir is set and used in Makefile(s), let add support for --infodir=DIR [PREFIX/info] ./configure option in config.mak.in. Half of patch by Jeff King [off-list ref]m adding --XXdir support (the easy part: autoconf has --infodir, but not --htmldir). Signed-off-by: Jakub Narebski <redacted> --- config.mak.in | 1 + 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)diff --git a/config.mak.in b/config.mak.in index 7cce0c1..acff9ed 100644 --- a/config.mak.in +++ b/config.mak.in@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ datarootdir = @datarootdir@template_dir = @datadir@/git-core/templates mandir=@mandir@ +infodir=@infodir@ srcdir = @srcdir@ VPATH = @srcdir@ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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