Re: `./configure --XXdir=` ignored?

Tim Visher [off-list ref] writes:

Hello Everyone,

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

Did you actually type --XXdir, or is this XX just a way to mean
something else? I don't see --XXdir mentionned anywhere.

I use "./configure --prefix=$HOME/some/dir" and it works fine (make
install-html installs to $prefix/share/doc/).

-- 
Matthieu