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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@telecom.at>
Cc: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/9] Make gitexecdir relative to $(bindir) on Windows
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 11:28:50 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vmyk8e9p9.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200807222131.32828.johannes.sixt@telecom.at> (Johannes Sixt's message of "Tue, 22 Jul 2008 21:31:32 +0200")

Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@telecom.at> writes:

> On Dienstag, 22. Juli 2008, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Mon, 21 Jul 2008, Johannes Sixt wrote:
>> > The problem was that argv[0] does not have a path in certain cases.
>>
>> Note that the same holds true for Linux when calling a program that is in
>> the PATH:
>
> Oh, boy!
>
>> I imagine that the proper solution would be to rip out lookup_prog() and
>> use it for non-Windows Git, too.  Unless you want to limit the usefulness
>> of your patch series to Windows, that is.
>
> This certainly goes beyond what I am prepared to do. It is not my itch. The 
> series is already much longer than I wanted, when there is a much simpler 
> solution that solves *my* problem: to set bindir = $(gitexecdir).

If you are living in the Windows world, perhaps you could record the
installation location in resource somewhere from the installer and look it
up at runtime?  Or is it considered a bad practice?

  reply	other threads:[~2008-07-23 18:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-21 19:19 [PATCH 0/9] Make gitexecdir relative to $(bindir) on Windows Johannes Sixt
2008-07-21 19:19 ` [PATCH 1/9] Makefile: Do not install a copy of 'git' in $(gitexecdir) Johannes Sixt
2008-07-21 19:19   ` [PATCH 2/9] Makefile: Normalize $(bindir) and $(gitexecdir) before comparing Johannes Sixt
2008-07-21 19:19     ` [PATCH 3/9] Record the command invocation path early Johannes Sixt
2008-07-21 19:19       ` [PATCH 4/9] Fix relative built-in paths to be relative to the command invocation Johannes Sixt
2008-07-21 19:19         ` [PATCH 5/9] Allow the built-in exec path to be relative to the command invocation path Johannes Sixt
2008-07-21 19:19           ` [PATCH 6/9] Allow add_path() to add non-existent directories to the path Johannes Sixt
2008-07-21 19:19             ` [PATCH 7/9] Windows: Make $(gitexecdir) relative Johannes Sixt
2008-07-21 19:19               ` [PATCH 8/9] Windows: Make sure argv[0] has a path Johannes Sixt
2008-07-21 19:19                 ` [PATCH 9/9] Windows: Do not compile git-shell Johannes Sixt
2008-07-21 19:26                   ` [PATCH 10/9] git-gui: git.git now uses $(gitexec_instdir) to point to the exec-path Johannes Sixt
2008-07-25  4:43                   ` [PATCH 9/9] Windows: Do not compile git-shell Steffen Prohaska
2008-07-23 18:31           ` [PATCH 5/9] Allow the built-in exec path to be relative to the command invocation path Junio C Hamano
2008-07-23 19:12             ` [PATCH 5/9 v2] " Johannes Sixt
2008-07-24  4:21               ` Junio C Hamano
2008-07-24 19:24                 ` Johannes Sixt
2008-07-25  4:50                   ` Junio C Hamano
2008-07-25  8:32                     ` Johannes Sixt
2008-07-25  8:38                       ` Johannes Sixt
2008-07-28  6:42                     ` Junio C Hamano
2008-07-21 23:48     ` [PATCH 2/9] Makefile: Normalize $(bindir) and $(gitexecdir) before comparing Johannes Schindelin
2008-07-22  7:25       ` Johannes Sixt
2008-07-28  0:18   ` [PATCH 1/9] Makefile: Do not install a copy of 'git' in $(gitexecdir) A Large Angry SCM
2008-07-28  6:24     ` Junio C Hamano
2008-07-28  6:39       ` Junio C Hamano
2008-07-28 10:43         ` A Large Angry SCM
2008-07-28 23:13         ` A Large Angry SCM
2008-07-28 10:41       ` A Large Angry SCM
2008-07-21 23:45 ` [PATCH 0/9] Make gitexecdir relative to $(bindir) on Windows Johannes Schindelin
2008-07-22 19:31   ` Johannes Sixt
2008-07-23 18:28     ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2008-07-23 18:49       ` Johannes Sixt

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