Re: [PATCH v6 0/3] RUNTIME_PREFIX relocatable Git

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mar 19, 2018, 17:02 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqfu4wvw0d.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <20180319025046.58052-1-dnj@google.com>

Dan Jacques <dnj@google.com> writes:

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> This patch set expands support for the RUNTIME_PREFIX configuration flag,
> currently only used on Windows builds, to include Linux, Darwin, and
> FreeBSD. When Git is built with RUNTIME_PREFIX enabled, it resolves its
> ancillary paths relative to the runtime location of its executable
> rather than hard-coding them at compile-time, allowing a Git
> installation to be deployed to a path other than the one in which it
> was built/installed.
>
> Note that RUNTIME_PREFIX is not currently used outside of Windows.
> This patch set should not have an impact on default Git builds.
>
> I'm dusting this back off now that avarab@'s Perl Makefile simplification
> patch set has landed. It's been a few months, so I'm a bit rusty, but I think
> that I've incorporated all of the feedback. Please take a look and let me know
> what you think!

Yay.  Thanks for rebooting the effort.