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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>,
	Paul Smith <paul@mad-scientist.net>,
	Daniel Jacques <dnj@google.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Git 2.18: RUNTIME_PREFIX... is it working?
Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2018 14:05:13 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqq1sccce7q.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180709195822.GA9000@sigill.intra.peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Mon, 9 Jul 2018 15:58:22 -0400")

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> 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.




  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-07-09 21:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-07-04  5:12 Git 2.18: RUNTIME_PREFIX... is it working? Paul Smith
2018-07-04 11:22 ` Johannes Schindelin
2018-07-05 15:36   ` Paul Smith
2018-07-06  9:00     ` Johannes Schindelin
2018-07-06 13:18       ` Daniel Jacques
2018-07-08 18:52         ` Paul Smith
2018-07-08 21:52           ` Johannes Schindelin
2018-07-09 19:58             ` Jeff King
2018-07-09 20:26               ` Johannes Schindelin
2018-07-10  2:21                 ` Jeff King
2018-07-10 11:40                   ` Johannes Schindelin
2018-07-10 14:03                     ` Daniel Jacques
2018-07-10 16:09                       ` Junio C Hamano
2018-07-09 21:05               ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2018-07-10  3:56               ` Jeff King
2018-07-10  7:13                 ` Perry Hutchison
2018-07-10 14:03                   ` Jeff King
2018-07-10 22:20                     ` Jonathan Nieder
2018-07-10 22:21                       ` Jonathan Nieder
2018-07-17  9:45                       ` Johannes Schindelin
2018-07-14 20:51                     ` brian m. carlson
2018-07-18 12:18                       ` Johannes Schindelin
2018-07-19 22:26                         ` brian m. carlson
2018-07-20 14:29                           ` Jeff Hostetler

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