On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 12:23:17PM -0700, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > > And > > not just for finding binaries; we want to find $(sharedir), > > etc, the same way. The RUNTIME_PREFIX build knob does this > > the right way > > Makes sense. For the reason you say (templatedir, etc) I am surprised > to hear that that was the motivation, but I can't find any other.
The Makefile was much less mature, then, so I wondered if maybe those things came later (certainly the munging of $PATH that introduced the problems came later, as at the time we had a special "we are exec-ing a git command" custom version of execvp). But no, the template directory did indeed exist then. I think it was always a half-baked idea (and got much worse when we stopped putting git-foo into $bindir). The relevant thread (which I think I linked the other day) is: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/16798 -Peff -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
