On 2022-10-04 09:38:24+0200, darkdragon <darkdragon-001@xxxxxx> wrote: > Even though in Makefile, it is stated that git will figure out > gitexecdir at runtime based on the path to the executable, there are > many output files where $(prefix) will be hardcoded. Even git > --exec-path will print out $(compile_prefix)/libexec/git-core instead > of using run_prefix. I'm not sure about this part. > Example: We are building git in Docker at a separate stage to /deploy > (since /usr/local is populated with our compiler toolchain). The final > image is assembled by copying the contents of /deploy to /usr/local. > Commands like "git submodule" will fail because of the wrong git exec > path. Searching via "grep -r /deploy" in /deploy after make install > yields many results. But you may be interested in $(DESTDIR) make prefix=/usr/local all make prefix=/usr/local DESTDIR=/deploy install Does that work for you? -- Danh