Hi, Jeff King wrote: > This was added long > ago by by 231af83 (Teach the "git" command to handle some > commands internally, 2006-02-26), with the intent that > things would just work if you did something like: > > cd /opt > tar xzf premade-git-package.tar.gz > alias git=/opt/git/bin/git > > as we would then find all of the related external commands > in /opt/git/bin. I.e., it made git runtime-relocatable, > since at the time of 231af83, we installed all of the git > commands into $(bindir). [...] > And > not just for finding binaries; we want to find $(sharedir), > etc, the same way. The RUNTIME_PREFIX build knob does this > the right way Makes sense. For the reason you say (templatedir, etc) I am surprised to hear that that was the motivation, but I can't find any other. [...] > Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> For what it's worth, Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@xxxxxxxxx> [...] > But note that you can't just > flip on RUNTIME_PREFIX on non-Windows systems, as some invocations will > get the full path to the executable, and others see just "git". You'd > need to convert that into an absolute path (either by searching the > $PATH, or doing something system-specific like looking in /proc/$$/exe). Yep --- /proc/self/exe should work okay if someone wants "portable git" to work on Linux. Thanks, Jonathan -- 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