meson build: datadir missing?

[Steffen Nurpmeso <steffen@sdaoden.eu>]

Hello again after a long time.

I opened

  https://git.crux.nu/ports/opt/issues/18

at my linux distro ([ports/opt] git: creates incomplete repos),
because hook etc directories were missing:

  warning: templates not found in /share/git-core/templates

He then said

  Try setting

    [init]
      templatedir = /usr/share/git-core/templates

  in your gitconfig.

which made me wonder since that is the default, so i looked and
saw his change to switch to meson back in January.  (What a pity,
i liked the make system; only that it requires GNU make, but
well..).  I then said (it is a web ui, sorry):

  hi. thanks, i see now (after looking around). it is a fallout of switching to meson, that build system seems incomplete

  master:meson.build: '-DDEFAULT_GIT_TEMPLATE_DIR="' + get_option('datadir') / 'git-core/templates' + '"',

  but that "datadir" does not happen to be set at all it seems; is this known upstream? (Hamano does not like me either, so i will not do that..)

  Only wondering why this happens at all, and is not covered by its tests, really.

  Ok i overwrite the default with the real default in my config, thanks again.


While here, since a couple of months maybe i get a problem on my
spare notebook when i sync the filesystem (btrfs).
To reproduce:

  #?0|kent:~# mount /media/btrfs-master/
  #?0|kent:/media/btrfs-master# cd crux/kent/root
  #?0|kent:/media/btrfs-master/crux/kent/root# chroot .

^(we are now chroot(1)ed to the same what is /, actually.)

  #?0|kent:/# cd root/
  #?0|kent:~# git co kent
  git: ../git-2.48.1/exec-cmd.c:50: system_prefix: Assertion `executable_dirname' failed.
  Aborted

It will work if i do /usr/bin/git, effectively the same binary.
However, this does not apply "normally":

  #?0|kent:~# cd /
  #?0|kent:/# chroot .
  #?0|kent:/# cd root
  #?0|kent:~# git co kent
  M       hosts/iwd.network/.known_network.freq
  Switched to branch 'kent'
  #?0|kent:~# git co master
  M       hosts/iwd.network/.known_network.freq
  Switched to branch 'master'

Whatever the actual logic is, it seems a bit odd, and furthermore,
and most of all, the above assertion is not a real help to solve
the problem at hand, some kind of hint to a solution would be
tremendous!

Thanks for git, and ciao!

--steffen
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