On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 9:45 PM, Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> wrote: >> endif >> ········$(RM)·"$$execdir/$$p"·&&·\ >> ········test·-z·"$(NO_INSTALL_HARDLINKS)$(NO_CROSS_DIRECTORY_HARDLINKS)"·&&·\ >> ········ln·"$$bindir/$$p"·"$$execdir/$$p"·2>/dev/null·||·\ >> +········ln·-s·"../$$p"·"$$execdir/$$p"·2>/dev/null·||·\ >> ········cp·"$$bindir/$$p"·"$$execdir/$$p"·||·exit;·\ >> ······done;·\ >> ····}·&&·\ >> --· >> >> does not seem to be correct in all cases. > > Ah, I see. Yeah, you'd have to calculate that relative path between > $bindir and $execdir. We have C code already to do that (see > relative_path() in path.c), so in theory you could build a wrapper > during the build phase and then run: > > ln -s $(./my-wrapper "$bindir" "$execdir")/$p $execdir/$p > > or something during the install phase. Thanks for pointing out the C code to do that. But IMO creating and using such a wrapper is not worth the effort. -- Sebastian Schuberth -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html