From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: [PATCH] Extend runtime prefix computation Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2013 11:23:09 -0700 Message-ID: <7vvc7ml4he.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <20121127163004.GC7499@science-computing.de> <20130305115837.GD21473@science-computing.de> <7vd2vdvn7l.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <20130306081942.GA11151@science-computing.de> <20130416145653.GG12782@science-computing.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Apr 16 20:23:21 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1USAXE-0008Jg-N3 for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Tue, 16 Apr 2013 20:23:17 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934008Ab3DPSXM (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Apr 2013 14:23:12 -0400 Received: from b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com ([208.72.237.35]:53439 "EHLO smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753469Ab3DPSXM (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Apr 2013 14:23:12 -0400 Received: from smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5EC8717576; Tue, 16 Apr 2013 18:23:11 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=from:to :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; s=sasl; bh=u1AprXUQ+aRzapsQlknOj3ARRg0=; b=S2HkiB VywrNwHCgOwlG7Yf8ljupFQLorU62BqqGGOpPsKTYMy5VvlwYK4AVUJO03Gmmole WUFSIXrbgiDopuYMzvpWA0NYD8mT5IkEL1zRMZY4VzjlVMUfMmh94HpilJF8KPkM g9WhEMgErFn947oUvtFXeSQ8kO9Y2E7t/ELj4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:subject :references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; q=dns; s=sasl; b=uQWVs6NtA856Lxnc/5VXUCG0X1uBH7I3 br+A8iB47qPyfhbNPaDWkjQFtQIg9sJYJAGzWtkx2LhGrCL0LAwBx9gGtLS56VhV GH6K+pJkmD4O6VuDLV50BYNaCu9rPF5l3QVVOIo5XQwhOuC6KqxsbuCPlAZ+sNK5 Varmp9Kr1VQ= Received: from b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 525A317575; Tue, 16 Apr 2013 18:23:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [24.4.35.13]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id C3C9E17574; Tue, 16 Apr 2013 18:23:10 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <20130416145653.GG12782@science-computing.de> (nobody's message of "Tue, 16 Apr 2013 16:56:54 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: B19ACBD6-A6C2-11E2-8C90-8341C8FBB9E7-77302942!b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: nobody writes: > Hello Junio, > Hello list, > > On Wed, Mar 06, 2013 at 09:19:42AM +0100, Michael Weiser wrote: > >> > >> Support determining the binaries' installation path at runtime even if >> > >> called without any path components (i.e. via search path). >> > The default for any change is not to include it. Is there any >> > reason why we want this change? >> It makes a binary git installation fully relocatable. Seeing how git >> already has basic support for it I thought other people might be >> interested in this. > > I am still interested in getting this accepted into git. Where do I push > to get it committed? I do not have a strong objection to what it tries to achieve, but I'd prefer to see no "#ifdef platform" code in a very generic part of the system like exec_cmd.