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authorJakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>2006-07-03 01:56:48 +0200
committerJunio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>2006-07-02 17:11:52 -0700
commit556677144b55aad8457851a9019e86c3676bd422 (patch)
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autoconf: Use autoconf to write installation directories to config.mak.autogen
This is beginning of patch series introducing installation configuration using autoconf (and no other autotools) to git. The idea is to generate config.mak.autogen using ./configure (generated from configure.ac by running autoconf) from config.mak.in, so one can use autoconf as an _alternative_ to ordinary Makefile, and creating one's own config.mak. Local settings in config.mak override generated settings in config.mak.autogen This patch includes minimal configure.ac and config.mak.in, so one can set installation directories using autoconf generated ./configure script e.g. ./configure --prefix=/usr Signed-off-by: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
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--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -13,6 +13,15 @@ that uses $prefix, the built results have some paths encoded,
which are derived from $prefix, so "make all; make prefix=/usr
install" would not work.
+Alternatively you can use autoconf generated ./configure script to
+set up install paths (via config.mak.autogen), so you can write instead
+
+ $ autoconf ;# as yourself if ./configure doesn't exist yet
+ $ ./configure --prefix=/usr ;# as yourself
+ $ make all doc ;# as yourself
+ # make install install-doc ;# as root
+
+
Issues of note:
- git normally installs a helper script wrapper called "git", which