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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: "Đoàn Trần Công Danh" <congdanhqx@gmail.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 10:26:24 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqo8ndxhof.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200814150214.GC9518@danh.dev> ("Đoàn Trần Công Danh"'s message of "Fri, 14 Aug 2020 22:02:14 +0700")

Đoàn Trần Công Danh  <congdanhqx@gmail.com> writes:

>> 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?

In the top-level Makefile, INSTALL_SYMLINKS make macro does exist,
but it is not exported to submakes.  If it were, something like

    ifdef INSTALL_SYMLINKS
	LN = ln -s
    else
    ifdef NO_INSTALL_HARDLINKS
	LN = cp
    else
	LN = ln
    endif
    endif

might become possible, but you'd need to audit what is fed to $(LN)
at the locations the macro is used and make necessary adjustment
accordingly.  "cp A ../B" or "ln A ../B" will make a usable copy of
file A appear inside ../B directory, but "ln -s A ../B" will not,
and I didn't see if all uses of $(LN) was to give synonyms to what
is already installed, or some of them were truly installing from the
build location when I gave the "something along this line" example.




  reply	other threads:[~2020-08-14 17:26 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
2020-08-14 17:26       ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
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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