Re: [PATCH v2] Do not install shell libraries executable

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

Junio C Hamano wrote:

> How much would it hurt the distro packagers, if we don't take this patch
> before 1.7.0?  If this would help a lot, let's give it a bit higher
> priority and make sure 1.7.0 ships with (a corrected version of) it;
> otherwise I'd say we should not merge this before 1.7.0.

Given that Peff’s fix is in, I don’t think it is needed at all.  So I
would say, better to let it wait.

> > +SCRIPT_LIB_SH += git-mergetool--lib.sh
> > +SCRIPT_LIB_SH += git-parse-remote.sh
> > +SCRIPT_LIB_SH += git-sh-setup.sh
> > + ...
> > @@ -1792,6 +1802,7 @@ install: all
> >  	$(INSTALL) -d -m 755 '$(DESTDIR_SQ)$(bindir_SQ)'
> >  	$(INSTALL) -d -m 755 '$(DESTDIR_SQ)$(gitexec_instdir_SQ)'
> >  	$(INSTALL) $(ALL_PROGRAMS) '$(DESTDIR_SQ)$(gitexec_instdir_SQ)'
> > +	$(INSTALL) -m 644 $(SCRIPT_LIB_SH) '$(DESTDIR_SQ)$(gitexec_instdir_SQ)'
> 
> I can understand that you didn't want to include the "included scriptlets"
> as part of ALL_PROGRAMS because $(INSTALL) may flip 'x' bit on.
> 
> But you should then be installing %(patsubst %.sh,%,$(SCRIPT_LIB_SH));
> otherwise, you are installing git-sh-setup.sh and
> 
>     . git-sh-setup
> 
> would not work.  Have you ever tested this?

Good catches, sorry. :(  I did test but clearly I was not thinking very
well when I looked at the result...

> Wouldn't it make a bit more sense to do it like this instead?

Yes, that looks right.  Thanks for cleaning up my mess!

Sorry for the trouble,
Jonathan