Re: Install-prefix when building should not be hardcoded
On 2022-10-04 09:38:24+0200, darkdragon <darkdragon-001@web.de> wrote:
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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.
I'm not sure about this part.
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> 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.
But you may be interested in $(DESTDIR)
make prefix=/usr/local all
make prefix=/usr/local DESTDIR=/deploy install
Does that work for you?
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Danh