[Users] [PATCH] configure.ac: really use the specified GIT variable

Colin Leroy colin at colino.net
Thu Nov 16 09:10:12 CET 2017


On Thu, 16 Nov 2017 01:08:21 +0100, Ricardo Mones <ricardo at mones.org>
wrote:

> > With 'env GIT=/what/ever ./configure [options]' AC_CHECK_PROG
> > receives a custom binary. Use this custom binary to set
> > GIT_VERSION.  
> 
> I don't know of much binaries which support git arguments, except
> commands which ignore them, so I wonder... what's this useful for?
> funny version numbers?

It could be useful for people who want to use /opt/bin/git instead of
the system-provided /usr/bin/git, for example :)

-- 
Colin
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