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Re: [PATCH] Wrap RUNTIME_PREFIX warning in a compile-time condition

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Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date
Feb 23, 2010, 09:42 UTC
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<alpine.DEB.1.00.1002231041230.20986@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>
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Hi,
On Tue, 23 Feb 2010, Johannes Sixt wrote:
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> From: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
> 
> When RUNTIME_PREFIX is enabled, the installation prefix is derived by
> trying a limited set of known locations where the git executable can
> reside. If none of these is found, a warning is emitted.
> 
> When git is built in a directory that matches neither of these known names,
> the warning would always be emitted when the uninstalled executable is run.
> This is a problem on Windows, where gitk picks the uninstalled git when
> invoked on the build directory and gets confused by the warning.
> 
> With this patch, individual developers can disable the warning by setting
> 
>    BASIC_CFLAGS += -DNO_WARN_RUNTIME_PREFIX
> 
> in config.mak.

Would this option not prefer to be a runtime option? An environment variable should suffice.

Ciao, Dscho

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