Re: Install-prefix when building should not be hardcoded

From: darkdragon <darkdragon-001@web.de>
Date: Oct 5, 2022, 20:23 UTC
Message-ID: <CAAOCJVAAwgECsJPfm7eHOMmKPewJzxHTKhjwacxPRYWJkSpX_g@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqczb6oyie.fsf@gitster.g>

On Wed, Oct 5, 2022 at 9:34 PM Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

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> Đoàn Trần Công Danh  <congdanhqx@gmail.com> writes:
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> > On 2022-10-04 09:38:24+0200, darkdragon <darkdragon-001@web.de> wrote:
> >> Even though in Makefile, it is stated that git will figure out
> >> gitexecdir at runtime based on the path to the executable, there are
> >> many output files where $(prefix) will be hardcoded. Even git
> >> --exec-path will print out $(compile_prefix)/libexec/git-core instead
> >> of using run_prefix.
> >
> > I'm not sure about this part.
>
> Perhaps it is related to the use of RUNTIME_PREFIX (which I don't
> use myself)?

This seems to do the trick! Thanks a lot!