setup: translate symlinks in filename when using absolute paths

diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 56731c35c9d1b5e2d2c82cdff51ab496dcbac7f5..cc55b6d4f741948f3bd05c6299fabdb9f21d7f95 100644 (file)
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -282,7 +282,15 @@ GIT_PARSE_WITH(iconv))
 GIT_PARSE_WITH_SET_MAKE_VAR(gitconfig, ETC_GITCONFIG,
                        Use VALUE instead of /etc/gitconfig as the
                        global git configuration file.
-                       If VALUE is not fully qualified it will be interpretted
+                       If VALUE is not fully qualified it will be interpreted
+                       as a path relative to the computed prefix at runtime.)
+
+#
+# Allow user to set ETC_GITATTRIBUTES variable
+GIT_PARSE_WITH_SET_MAKE_VAR(gitattributes, ETC_GITATTRIBUTES,
+                       Use VALUE instead of /etc/gitattributes as the
+                       global git attributes file.
+                       If VALUE is not fully qualified it will be interpreted
                        as a path relative to the computed prefix at runtime.)
 
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