From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johannes Sixt Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6] Move computation of absolute paths from Makefile to runtime and compute prefix on the fly if RUNTIME_PREFIX set Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 20:43:16 +0100 Message-ID: <200901132043.16789.j6t@kdbg.org> References: <1231595452-27698-1-git-send-email-prohaska@zib.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Junio C Hamano , git@vger.kernel.org, Johannes Schindelin To: Steffen Prohaska X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Jan 13 20:45:08 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LMpBq-000103-VQ for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Tue, 13 Jan 2009 20:44:43 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752816AbZAMTnT (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Jan 2009 14:43:19 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752751AbZAMTnT (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Jan 2009 14:43:19 -0500 Received: from bsmtp.bon.at ([213.33.87.14]:24973 "EHLO bsmtp.bon.at" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752709AbZAMTnS (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Jan 2009 14:43:18 -0500 Received: from dx.sixt.local (unknown [93.83.142.38]) by bsmtp.bon.at (Postfix) with ESMTP id 11629CDF89; Tue, 13 Jan 2009 20:43:17 +0100 (CET) Received: from localhost (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by dx.sixt.local (Postfix) with ESMTP id DECA258275; Tue, 13 Jan 2009 20:43:16 +0100 (CET) User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 In-Reply-To: <1231595452-27698-1-git-send-email-prohaska@zib.de> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Samstag, 10. Januar 2009, Steffen Prohaska wrote: > This is the first commit of a series that adds support for > relocatable binaries (called RUNTIME_PREFIX). Such binaries can be > moved together with the system configuration files to a different > directory, as long as the relative paths from the binary to the > configuration files is preserved. This functionality is essential > on Windows where we deliver git binaries with an installer that > allows to freely choose the installation location. The commit > series implements RUNTIME_PREFIX only on Windows. Adding support > on Unix should not be too hard, though. This series looks sane, and my comments on 2/6 and 3/6 certainly do not indicate any showstoppers. I've just started using it; so far there are no problems. -- Hannes