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Re: Install-prefix when building should not be hardcoded

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Oct 5, 2022, 19:34 UTC
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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)?

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  7. Makefile: clarify runtime relative gitexecdirĐoàn Trần Công Danh, Oct 6, 2022

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