From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.1 (2015-04-28) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS31976 209.132.180.0/23 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.3 required=3.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00, FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN,FREEMAIL_FROM,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.1 Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by dcvr.yhbt.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1FFAF1F62D for ; Fri, 6 Jul 2018 09:00:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753625AbeGFJAW (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Jul 2018 05:00:22 -0400 Received: from mout.gmx.net ([212.227.15.18]:34237 "EHLO mout.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753304AbeGFJAV (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Jul 2018 05:00:21 -0400 Received: from [192.168.0.129] ([37.201.195.74]) by mail.gmx.com (mrgmx003 [212.227.17.190]) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 0LlE86-1g92et2lio-00b7Dj; Fri, 06 Jul 2018 11:00:17 +0200 Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2018 11:00:00 +0200 (DST) From: Johannes Schindelin X-X-Sender: virtualbox@gitforwindows.org To: Paul Smith cc: Git mailing list , Dan Jacques Subject: Re: Git 2.18: RUNTIME_PREFIX... is it working? In-Reply-To: <986185d30a0f09b4e2a9832d324a265cd3da7354.camel@mad-scientist.net> Message-ID: References: <97803ec8dae0a73bae301a37377b7b4a78f77e99.camel@mad-scientist.net> <986185d30a0f09b4e2a9832d324a265cd3da7354.camel@mad-scientist.net> User-Agent: Alpine 2.21.1 (DEB 209 2017-03-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Provags-ID: V03:K1:SZ99lmx31Arwc2wPVptAUzrynac8B3HkSQ5NtYw834E0guiNnvh UMtQK/OByMkIfgv4XdXe/T7xUhnzGQwFHmT3jdJTYg/KEEdEm0mzF3uifbI734xJkY9dKSU e3sLIL9rPWBtXKSKLlJjeCgCjJDIVnX4WPZJmZXH2si5kspC0fcCKyihza/us2T6e7euB7x zMpVvnHxn/i4kPKzjuXMg== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V01:K0:ZXMCWLyidzo=:lBtyXu73kYRQGcYdXpsqHw ea13iaFq/TZxMAMCGRpRpAPl5SAV27mkTp4Tas2SnpIbo5WTjEy4cAZV9zNrbkor/LJjqs6Vt KjzBVYZUSFvEo6xAihzcclmRZxkhyx7FyBXpkcK4oT/PJMkY4Q7md+zUnnC0z2SRvHfxZWPE+ wkPLkbTBi5tbXADS2I/z/pdmpDaRRiWXTgfVt3Dq7bg4u/KJaahaVog6ddAY7OU8DJjhTrii+ r4AxWNuT8djTWewfK7qnsZByNqQifIuNNMDJaKjQIJoN6DMG4GO51T+ue/O2qDypt4YdRdHU7 bTl9KJfYVV4o7ulnqCictgtWi3fNj/MGScRlY8d67bypnSe9X9mDNYToGKRFY/NaD4VZBuzjH 04y05KUg+9TecBejKKyg5XMEwqVDIexm88nkYgrhONeTbZmaux5lIcR6N7BYqQX+HhyGpCdIx uAUUIXRggW2axYHJoBFGEM51fqZNQn9Iru7FhMJHgMN7jf56yIzD7YyFGP68sBNQXz/hrUnyE 80fWg4VqB/+oH1sqZgGCD80SDj1R+ncTRp7bOhhpPUm6eVvro6sQ1GeX5nDXHAJbxgktfSXEQ 6VDuIpoylj8frK2wXtmBSSE2ocFLVu5u8pTnfE/UpUrpepcn7Grs6qPVpXTxBJ/qQYO8tB8OU LNQLh3t7u6646Hamze2L2s0PV83oMdi0hScUhRtedAHtzkM9Ev49R0R4ZkueO1AkZ2zu0dnw6 wd0hRUTtUDAjgze1DZ7oDp/UE1IcPG2VO2H/BTFQ02oTp9Y0G9WobiK0liIEguXTXVp28t/UI 2x8bi++ Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org 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