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

On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 12:33 PM, Matthieu Moy [off-list ref] wrote:

Tim Visher [off-list ref] writes:
I attempted to do this through

quoted

    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.

Yes, it was just a placeholder.  I actually typed things like
--htmldir, --mandir, --bindir, etc.

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

This works for me as well.  However, I was hoping for finer tuned
control than that through configure.  IE ~/bin ~/man ~/info etc.

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