From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael Subject: Build oddities Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2012 06:34:49 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Feb 05 07:40:13 2012 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 1Rtvll-0005nF-1O for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Sun, 05 Feb 2012 07:40:13 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751078Ab2BEGkG (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Feb 2012 01:40:06 -0500 Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:57736 "EHLO plane.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750801Ab2BEGkF (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Feb 2012 01:40:05 -0500 Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Rtvlb-0005ih-3q for git@vger.kernel.org; Sun, 05 Feb 2012 07:40:03 +0100 Received: from ppp118-209-82-79.lns20.mel4.internode.on.net ([118.209.82.79]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 05 Feb 2012 07:40:03 +0100 Received: from kensington by ppp118-209-82-79.lns20.mel4.internode.on.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 05 Feb 2012 07:40:03 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-Loom-IP: 118.209.82.79 (Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:13.0a1) Gecko/20120203 Firefox/13.0a1) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi there, I ran into a build oddity with git today - the environment variable $X is appended to most binaries. At the time, I had X=last, so I ended up with gitlast, git-peek-remotelast etc. Does anyone know why this behaviour exists, and if it is still desired? Best regards, Michael