From: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
To: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, gitster@pobox.com,
Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] RUNTIME_PREFIX enhancements
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 23:52:19 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <499C9123.2070104@kdbg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0902182208070.10279@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>
Johannes Schindelin schrieb:
> On Wed, 18 Feb 2009, Johannes Sixt wrote:
>> This only silences the warning, but there is no guarantee that the
>> resulting git suite works because your msysgit developer may not have
>> installed stuff in C:\msysgit\libexec\git-core, yet.
>
> The good thing: it still works. Why? Because Git actually does _not_
> search the Git binaries in libexec/git-core. It adds that directory to
> PATH and lets the PATH lookup handle the searching. So it kind of works,
> but in a different manner than you think it works.
I see why it works: Because we add argv0_path to PATH. I had forgotten
about this fact. It comes after git_exec_path(), and so we pick up the
binaries and shell scripts from the build directory if there is nothing
in $prefix/libexec/git-core.
It's sad that your patch requires the source to live in a directory
named 'git'. But I don't know how to do it better. :-(
-- Hannes
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-02-18 22:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-02-18 15:10 [PATCH 0/2] RUNTIME_PREFIX enhancements Johannes Schindelin
2009-02-18 15:11 ` [PATCH 1/2] Introduce the function strip_path_suffix() Johannes Schindelin
2009-02-18 19:39 ` Johannes Sixt
2009-02-18 21:13 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-02-18 22:27 ` Johannes Sixt
2009-02-18 23:18 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-02-19 19:10 ` [PATCH v2 0/2] RUNTIME_PREFIX enhancements Johannes Schindelin
2009-02-19 19:10 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] Introduce the function strip_path_suffix() Johannes Schindelin
2009-02-19 20:12 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-02-19 20:26 ` Johannes Sixt
2009-02-19 20:44 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-02-19 19:10 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] system_path(): simplify using strip_path_suffix(), and add suffix "git" Johannes Schindelin
2009-02-19 20:39 ` Johannes Sixt
2009-02-19 20:48 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-02-20 8:35 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-02-18 15:11 ` [PATCH " Johannes Schindelin
2009-02-18 19:38 ` [PATCH 0/2] RUNTIME_PREFIX enhancements Johannes Sixt
2009-02-18 21:11 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-02-18 22:52 ` Johannes Sixt [this message]
2009-02-18 23:19 ` Johannes Schindelin
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