Re: Installing git binaries on a non-default directory (Ubuntu)

2015-04-23 Thread Jeff King
On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 11:10:51AM +, Macario, Gianpaolo wrote: Unfortunately it looks to me that the `--prefix=xxx` option provided to configure will be hardcoded to the path returned by 'git --exec-path', and I do not see how this may actually be made dependent on the directory where

Re: Installing git binaries on a non-default directory (Ubuntu)

2015-04-13 Thread Junio C Hamano
Gianpaolo Macario gianpaolo_maca...@mentor.com writes: By some googling and after reading the git sources and the commit logs I assumed that the `RUNTIME_PREFIX` option (see https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/exec_cmd.c) was designed for that purpose, I do not think so. The standard

RE: Installing git binaries on a non-default directory (Ubuntu)

2015-04-13 Thread Macario, Gianpaolo
Hello Juno, Gianpaolo Macario gianpaolo_maca...@mentor.com writes: By some googling and after reading the git sources and the commit logs I assumed that the `RUNTIME_PREFIX` option (see https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/exec_cmd.c) was designed for that purpose, I do not think