Re: git binary directory?

From: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Date: Nov 6, 2005, 08:28 UTC
Message-ID: <20051106082830.GO1431@pasky.or.cz>
In-Reply-To: <200511060312.jA63CUcv010887@inti.inf.utfsm.cl>

Dear diary, on Sun, Nov 06, 2005 at 04:12:30AM CET, I got a letter where Horst von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl> told me that...

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> Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:
> >                                                    we need to
> > teach some of our commands that use other git commands to
> > prepend /usr/lib/git/ (or /usr/libexec/git)
> 
> AFAIU, /usr/libexec/git (or /usr/libexec/git-<version>) would be better.
> Including the version would make it possible to have the last stable and a
> development version coexisting, like gcc does with -V. Or its -B option,
> which tells it where to find the executables that do the real work.

In Cogito, when including the lib programs, I'm doing

	. ${COGITO_LIB}cg-Xlib || exit 1

and then during installation I do:

	sed -e 's/\$${COGITO_LIB}/"\$${COGITO_LIB:-$(libdir)\/}"/g'

Then I can override it during execution by exporting $COGITO_LIB.

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