Hi Paul, On Thu, 5 Jul 2018, Paul Smith wrote: > On Wed, 2018-07-04 at 13:22 +0200, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > > Basically what happens is that I run configure with > > > --prefix=/my/install/path --with-gitconfig=etc/gitconfig > > > --with-gitattributes=etc/gitattributes. > > > > > > Then I run make with RUNTIME_PREFIX=YesPlease. > > > > Ah. In Git for Windows, we do not use configure. I *think* this > > points to an incompatibility of the RUNTIME_PREFIX feature with our > > autoconf support, and this is a grand opportunity for you to step in > > and help. > > > > Essentially, what you will want to do is to implement a new configure > > option --with-runtime-prefix that then prevents the autoconf script > > from munging the relative paths in the way it does. > > FYI I was able to get this to work by overriding variables on the make > command line, like this: > > make ... RUNTIME_PREFIX=YesPlease \ > gitexecdir=libexec/git-core \ > template_dir=share/git-core/templates \ > sysconfdir=etc > > I agree a new autoconf option would be much simpler to use. I'll think > about it as I happen to have some some experience in these areas ;) ... I look forward to reviewing this... > but time is limited of course :). Yep. Same here ;-) Ciao, Johannes
