On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 12:21:44PM +0200, Joachim Schmitz wrote:
> > > + # for 'make test'
> > > + # some test don't work with /bin/diff, some fail with /bin/tar
> > > + # some need bash, and some need ${prefix}/bin in PATH first
> > > + SHELL_PATH=${prefix}/bin/bash
> > > + SANE_TOOL_PATH=${prefix}/bin
> >
> > This feels a little too specific to go in our Makefile. Do we have any
> > reason to think that where you are installing git is going to be the
> > same place you have bash and other sane tools? Wouldn't this mean that
> > things work when you run "make" but mysteriously break when you run
> > "make prefix=/my/local/install/of/git"?
>
> Well, "make" won't break (I think), but "make test" very well might.
Sure.
> Well, so far all OpenSource packages ported to HP NonStop (at least
> the ones on ituglib.connect-community.org) use prefix=/usr/local and
> there is no intention to change that.
But then I would think using /usr/local would be the sane thing to put
there, if that is the closest to "standard" for your platform.
If there is not a standard, then I think we are better off leaving it
blank and letting people do the right thing for their system (including
packagers who are building for other people).
-Peff
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