From: "Đoàn Trần Công Danh" <congdanhqx@gmail.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>,
Alexander Ost <ost@ieee.org>, Git List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [BUG] `make install' partly ignores `NO_INSTALL_HARDLINKS'
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2020 22:02:14 +0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200814150214.GC9518@danh.dev> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqimdm1ae6.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com>
On 2020-08-13 14:52:33-0700, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> writes:
>
> > On Wed, Aug 12, 2020 at 4:16 AM Alexander Ost <ost@ieee.org> 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. Perhaps something along this line (which is totally
> untested), as the top-level Makefile already exports
> NO_INSTALL_HARDLINKS to submakes?
>
>
>
> Makefile | 9 +++++++--
> 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
> index f10caedaa7..1cdbf8e504 100644
> --- a/Makefile
> +++ b/Makefile
> @@ -44,6 +44,11 @@ endif
> ifndef INSTALL
> INSTALL = install
> endif
> +ifdef NO_INSTALL_HARDLINKS
> + LN = cp
Since both git-citool and git-gui will be installed into same
directory "$(libexecdir)", I think it would make more sense to use:
LN = ln -s
here instead?
> +else
> + LN = ln
> +endif
>
> RM_RF ?= rm -rf
> RMDIR ?= rmdir
> @@ -57,7 +62,7 @@ INSTALL_X1 =
> INSTALL_A0 = find # space is required here
> INSTALL_A1 = | cpio -pud
> INSTALL_L0 = rm -f # space is required here
> -INSTALL_L1 = && ln # space is required here
> +INSTALL_L1 = && $(LN) # space is required here
> INSTALL_L2 =
> INSTALL_L3 =
>
> @@ -87,7 +92,7 @@ ifndef V
> INSTALL_L0 = dst=
> INSTALL_L1 = && src=
> INSTALL_L2 = && dst=
> - INSTALL_L3 = && echo ' ' 'LINK ' `basename "$$dst"` '->' `basename "$$src"` && rm -f "$$dst" && ln "$$src" "$$dst"
> + INSTALL_L3 = && echo ' ' 'LINK ' `basename "$$dst"` '->' `basename "$$src"` && rm -f "$$dst" && $(LN) "$$src" "$$dst"
>
> CLEAN_DST = echo ' ' UNINSTALL
> REMOVE_D0 = dir=
--
Danh
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-08-14 15:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-08-12 8:15 [BUG] `make install' partly ignores `NO_INSTALL_HARDLINKS' Alexander Ost
2020-08-13 21:45 ` Eric Sunshine
2020-08-13 21:52 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-08-14 8:33 ` Alexander Ost
2020-08-14 15:02 ` Đoàn Trần Công Danh [this message]
2020-08-14 17:26 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-08-15 1:15 ` Đoàn Trần Công Danh
2020-08-17 16:40 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-08-17 17:06 ` Đoàn Trần Công Danh
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