make $prefix available for sub-makefiles

exports $prefix and makes Documentation/Makefile following it also.

Signed-off-by: Kai Ruemmler <kai.ruemmler@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>

diff --git a/Documentation/Makefile b/Documentation/Makefile
index bb21d6af44e6aa591c2adb33e0447853ac1c65c5..3cfa360a9e4876286bfb37230daca6af8c799725 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/Makefile
+++ b/Documentation/Makefile
@@ -17,14 +17,14 @@ DOC_HTML += $(patsubst %,%.html,$(ARTICLES) $(SP_ARTICLES))
 DOC_MAN1=$(patsubst %.txt,%.1,$(MAN1_TXT))
 DOC_MAN7=$(patsubst %.txt,%.7,$(MAN7_TXT))
 
-prefix=$(HOME)
+prefix?=$(HOME)
 bin=$(prefix)/bin
 mandir=$(prefix)/man
 man1=$(mandir)/man1
 man7=$(mandir)/man7
 # DESTDIR=
 
-INSTALL=install
+INSTALL?=install
 
 #
 # Please note that there is a minor bug in asciidoc.

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 7ca77cf2af012aa4a6d936425e518618af9dd625..bcda94327347de5c9e0efc2f0491fa0db9ffb635 100644 (file)
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -293,7 +293,7 @@ SCRIPTS = $(patsubst %.sh,%,$(SCRIPT_SH)) \
          $(patsubst %.py,%,$(SCRIPT_PYTHON)) \
          gitk
 
-export TAR INSTALL DESTDIR SHELL_PATH
+export prefix TAR INSTALL DESTDIR SHELL_PATH
 ### Build rules
 
 all: $(PROGRAMS) $(SCRIPTS)