Hi Paul, On Tue, 27 Sep 2016, Paul Smith wrote: > On Mon, 2016-09-26 at 14:57 -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 2:32 PM, Paul Smith <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > Hi all. I'm trying to create a relocatable installation of Git 2.9.2, > > > so I can copy it anywhere and it continues to run without any problem. > > > This is on GNU/Linux systems, FWIW. > > > > I had an impression that the setting was only to support MS Windows. > > Hm. You may be right. If so that's too bad, because a relocatable Git > is very handy even on UNIX systems. I see no reason why we have to keep the RUNTIME_PREFIX functional for Windows only. Paul, how about giving it a try to fix things? I can make sure that your changes do not break anything on Windows. Ciao, Johannes