Re: [POLL] Who likes running Git without make install?

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Jul 3, 2006, 08:37 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0607031037100.29667@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <20060703081725.GM29115@pasky.or.cz>

Hi,

On Mon, 3 Jul 2006, Petr Baudis wrote:

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> Dear diary, on Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 10:08:31AM CEST, I got a letter
> where Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> said that...
> > Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz> writes:
> > 
> > > Dear diary, on Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 08:54:47AM CEST, I got a letter
> > > where Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> said that...
> > >> -- >8 --
> > >> INSTALL: a tip for running after building but without installing.
> > >> 
> > >> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
> > >
> > > Acked-by: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
> > >
> > > I can live with this "weak (D3)". 99% of Git users probably use
> > > installed Git instance anyway and most of the rest are likely to be Git
> > > developers testing new code who can do this extra environment setup.
> > 
> > You earlier had to set two environment variables anyway but you
> > have added another.  I do not see what's weak about it.
> 
> I don't usually use the git wrapper so I got away without setting
> GIT_EXEC_PATH yet. ;-)

This is the config.mak I use everywhere:

-- snip -- bindir = $(shell pwd) template_dir = $(bindir)/templates/blt GIT_PYTHON_DIR = $(bindir)/compat -- snap --

No environment variable.

Ciao, Dscho