Re: [PATCH] Makefile: do not export mandir/htmldir/infodir

2013-02-12 Thread John Keeping
On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 03:16:51PM -0800, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> Junio C Hamano wrote:
> 
> > These are defined in the main Makefile to be funny values that are
> > optionally relative to an unspecified location that is determined at
> > runtime.
> [...]
> > A longer term fix is to introduce runtime_{man,html,info}dir variables
> > to hold these funny values, and make {man,html,info}dir variables
> > to have real paths whose default values begin with $(prefix), but
> > as a first step, stop exporting them from the top-level Makefile.
> 
> Makes sense.
> 
> Reported-by: John Keeping 
> Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder 

Fixes my original problem, so FWIW:

Tested-by: John Keeping 
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Re: [PATCH] Makefile: do not export mandir/htmldir/infodir

2013-02-12 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Junio C Hamano wrote:

> These are defined in the main Makefile to be funny values that are
> optionally relative to an unspecified location that is determined at
> runtime.
[...]
> A longer term fix is to introduce runtime_{man,html,info}dir variables
> to hold these funny values, and make {man,html,info}dir variables
> to have real paths whose default values begin with $(prefix), but
> as a first step, stop exporting them from the top-level Makefile.

Makes sense.

Reported-by: John Keeping 
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder 
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