Le 4 nov. 2025 à 09:41, Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] a écrit :

"D. Ben Knoble" [off-list ref] writes:

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Makefile-based builds can configure Git's internal HTML_PATH by defining
htmldir, which is useful for packagers that put documentation in
different locations. Gentoo, for example, uses version-suffixed
directories like ${prefix}/share/doc/git-2.51 and puts the HTML
documentation in an 'html' subdirectory of the same.

Propagate the same configuration knob to Meson-based builds so that
"git --html-path" on such systems can be configured to output the
correct directory.

Signed-off-by: D. Ben Knoble <redacted>
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Makes sense (a more meson-minded person needs to double check my
knee-jerk reaction, though).  It is surprising that

   $ git grep "dir', " meson_options.txt
   meson_options.txt:option('perllibdir', type: 'string', value: '',

has only a single hit (now two), though.  I thought we have a lot
more flexibility in our build process.

I learned just enough Meson to write this; many of the other “dir” options are builtin for it. Try “meson configure”

I am also a bit surprised that these things are of type 'string'; I
somehow was expecting that more modern build system would offer
richer (relative to Makefile, that is) types like 'filename' or
'path'.

Yea. At least there is a / operator to concatenate paths, but it looks like they are just strings on either side.  

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I've tested this with a modified live Gentoo ebuild [1] and had good results.

Thanks.  Will queue and wait for others to chime in.

Looking forward to it.