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Install-prefix when building should not be hardcoded

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Ddarkdragon <darkdragon-001@web.de>
Date
Oct 4, 2022, 07:38 UTC
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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.

Example: We are building git in Docker at a separate stage to /deploy
(since /usr/local is populated with our compiler toolchain). The final
image is assembled by copying the contents of /deploy to /usr/local.
Commands like "git submodule" will fail because of the wrong git exec
path. Searching via "grep -r /deploy" in /deploy after make install
yields many results.
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  7. Makefile: clarify runtime relative gitexecdirĐoàn Trần Công Danh, Oct 6, 2022

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