On Wed, Aug 12, 2020 at 4:16 AM Alexander Ost <ost@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > Despite installing with `make NO_INSTALL_HARDLINKS=1 install', the > installation process tries to create hard links, and the installation > fails (a quick workaround is `sed -i git-gui/Makefile -e "s/ln /ln -s > /g"'). > > make NO_INSTALL_HARDLINKS=1 install > ln: failed to create hard link > ‘/filesystem_without_hardlink_support/libexec/git-core/git-citool’ => > ‘/filesystem_without_hardlink_support/libexec/git-core/git-gui’: > Operation not permitted Indeed, it appears that the git-gui Makefile does not respect NO_INSTALL_HARDLINKS. The git-gui project is maintained and developed outside of the Git project (even though it gets bundled with Git), so it has its own issue tracker. It would probably be best to re-submit this bug report there: https://github.com/prati0100/git-gui/issues Thanks.
