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Re: [PATCH 1/3] git-gui: Adapt discovery of oguilib to execdir 'libexec/git-core'

From
Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de>
Date
Aug 3, 2008, 10:09 UTC
Message-ID
<58FBF585-377C-40A7-818E-6B47F8FD2EB8@zib.de>
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On Aug 3, 2008, at 11:35 AM, Johannes Sixt wrote:
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> Zitat von Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de>:
>>
>> On Jul 27, 2008, at 11:24 PM, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:
>>
>>> Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de> wrote:
>>>> The new execdir has is two levels below the root directory, while
>>>> the old execdir 'bin' was only one level below.  This commit
>>>> adapts the discovery of oguilib that uses relative paths
>>>> accordingly.
>>> ...
>>>> diff --git a/git-gui/git-gui.sh b/git-gui/git-gui.sh
>>>> index 940677c..baccd57 100755
>>>> --- a/git-gui/git-gui.sh
>>>> +++ b/git-gui/git-gui.sh
>>>> @@ -52,7 +52,9 @@ catch {rename send {}} ; # What an evil  
>>>> concept...
>>>> set oguilib {@@GITGUI_LIBDIR@@}
>>>> set oguirel {@@GITGUI_RELATIVE@@}
>>>> if {$oguirel eq {1}} {
>>>> -	set oguilib [file dirname [file dirname [file normalize $argv0]]]
>>>> +	set oguilib [file dirname \
>>>> +	             [file dirname \
>>>> +	              [file dirname [file normalize $argv0]]]]
>>>> 	set oguilib [file join $oguilib share git-gui lib]
>>>
>>> Hmmph.  This actually comes up incorrectly on my system.  The issue
>>> appears to be `git --exec-path` gives me $prefix/libexec/git-core,
>>> and git-gui installs its library into $prefix/libexec/share, which
>>> is wrong.  It should have gone to $prefix/share.
>>
>> I am not seeing this problem because I am installing using the
>> toplevel makefile, which sets and exports sharedir to $prefix/share.
>>
>>
>>> I wonder if this is better.  Your other two patches seem fine.
>>>
>>> --8<--
>>> [PATCH] git-gui: Correct installation of library to be $prefix/share
>>>
>>> We always wanted the library for git-gui to install into the
>>> $prefix/share directory, not $prefix/libexec/share.  All of
>>> the files in our library are platform independent and may
>>> be reused across systems, like any other content stored in
>>> the share directory.
>>>
>>> Our computation of where our library should install to was broken
>>> when git itself started installing to $prefix/libexec/git-core,
>>> which was one level down from where we expected it to be.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
>>> ---
>>> Makefile |    3 +++
>>> 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
>>> index b19fb2d..f72ab6c 100644
>>> --- a/Makefile
>>> +++ b/Makefile
>>> @@ -32,6 +32,9 @@ endif
>>> ifndef gitexecdir
>>> 	gitexecdir := $(shell git --exec-path)
>>> endif
>>> +ifeq (git-core,$(notdir $(gitexecdir)))
>>> +	gitexecdir := $(patsubst %/,%,$(dir $(gitexecdir)))
>>> +endif
>>
>> But gitexecdir has the correct value, no?  gitexecdir is used
>> at several places in the makefile.  It seems wrong to strip
>> 'git-core' from gitexecdir.  But I must admit that I do not
>> understand all the details of git-gui's Makefile.  So maybe
>> you know better.
>>
>> Isn't only the computation of sharedir based on gitexecdir wrong?
>>
>>> ifndef sharedir
>>> 	sharedir := $(dir $(gitexecdir))share
>>
>>
>> and could be replaced with this (instead of your patch):
>>
>>  ifndef sharedir
>> +ifeq (git-core,$(notdir $(gitexecdir)))
>> +       sharedir := $(dir $(patsubst %/,%,$(dir $(gitexecdir))))share
>> +else
>>         sharedir := $(dir $(gitexecdir))share
>>  endif
>> +endif
>
> This is not good enough in my environment.
This only fixes the installation directory.
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> I run git-gui effectivly with
>
>   wish $prefix/libexec/git-core/git-gui
>
> (and I have $PATH set up to contain $bindir, but not $gitexecdir),  
> and this
> needs the original hunk with the three [file dirname ... ], because  
> $argv0
> points to $prefix/libexec/git-core/git-gui.

The original hunk fixes the discovery of oguilib, i.e. from $prefix/libexec/git-core/git-gui to $prefix/share/git-gui/lib

I didn't recognize that the the 'three [file dinames ...]' have not been applied because I had this change already in 4msysgit (and still have). Apologies for not checking this more carefully.

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> I thought I understood what's going on, but I don't anymore.
>
> Mybe the relative discovery of oguilib must be conditional on the  
> "git-core"
> part as well, just like you discover sharedir?

Hmm... you are right. If we want to maintain compatibility with *both* directory layouts, obviously all computations that depend on the layout need to be conditional on it.

	Steffen
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Message 10 of 13 in “git-gui (Windows): Adapt to new execdir 'libexec/git-core'”
  1. 0/3 git-gui (Windows): Adapt to new execdir 'libexec/git-core'Steffen Prohaska, Jul 27, 2008
  2. 1/3 git-gui: Adapt discovery of oguilib to execdir 'libexec/git-core'Steffen Prohaska, Jul 27, 2008
  3. 2/3 git-gui (Windows): Switch to relative discovery of oguilibSteffen Prohaska, Jul 27, 2008
  4. 3/3 git-gui (Windows): Change wrapper to execdir 'libexec/git-core'Steffen Prohaska, Jul 27, 2008
  5. Shawn O. PearceJul 27, 2008
  6. Steffen ProhaskaJul 28, 2008
  7. Shawn O. PearceJul 30, 2008
  8. Steffen ProhaskaJul 30, 2008
  9. Johannes SixtAug 3, 2008
  10. Steffen ProhaskaAug 3, 2008
  11. git-gui: Adapt discovery of oguilib to execdir 'libexec/git-core'Johannes Sixt, Aug 4, 2008
  12. Shawn O. PearceAug 4, 2008
  13. git-gui: Adapt discovery of oguilib to execdir 'libexec/git-core'Johannes Sixt, Aug 4, 2008

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