Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > On Sun, Jul 08, 2018 at 11:52:22PM +0200, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > >> Now, if you care to have a look at Dan's (and my) patches to implement >> RUNTIME_PREFIX so that it looks for a directory *relative to the Git >> binary*, you will see that it is far from portable. In fact, it is very >> definitely not portable, and needs specific support for *every single >> supported Operating System*. And while we covered a lot, we did not cover >> all of them. >> >> So unfortunately, it is impossible to make it the default, I am afraid. > > Would it be reasonable to make RUNTIME_PREFIX the default on systems > where we _do_ have that support? AFAIK there is no downside to having it > enabled (minus a few syscalls to find the prefix, I suppose, but I > assume that's negligible). > > I.e., a patch to config.mak.uname (and possibly better support for > _disabling_ it, though I think "make RUNTIME_PREFIX=" would probably > work). I think that is a sensible approach.
