From git  Sun Sep 21 21:58:48 2008
From: Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt () telecom ! at>
Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2008 21:58:48 +0000
To: git
Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/7] Windows: Revert to default paths and convert them by RUNTIME_PREFIX
Message-Id: <200809212358.48125.johannes.sixt () telecom ! at>
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=git&m=122203437931454

On Sonntag, 21. September 2008, Steffen Prohaska wrote:
> The RUNTIME_PREFIX mechanism allows us to use the default (absolute) paths
> on Windows too.  Defining RUNTIME_PREFIX explicitly requests for
> translation of paths during runtime, depending on the path to the
> executable.
>
> Signed-off-by: Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de>
> ---
>  Makefile |    4 +---
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
> index 8181f74..98278f0 100644
> --- a/Makefile
> +++ b/Makefile
> @@ -767,6 +767,7 @@ ifneq (,$(findstring MINGW,$(uname_S)))
>  	SNPRINTF_RETURNS_BOGUS = YesPlease
>  	NO_SVN_TESTS = YesPlease
>  	NO_PERL_MAKEMAKER = YesPlease
> +	RUNTIME_PREFIX = YesPlease
>  	NO_POSIX_ONLY_PROGRAMS = YesPlease
>  	NO_ST_BLOCKS_IN_STRUCT_STAT = YesPlease
>  	COMPAT_CFLAGS += -D__USE_MINGW_ACCESS -DNOGDI -Icompat -Icompat/regex
> -Icompat/fnmatch @@ -775,9 +776,6 @@ ifneq (,$(findstring
> MINGW,$(uname_S)))
>  	COMPAT_OBJS += compat/mingw.o compat/fnmatch/fnmatch.o
> compat/regex/regex.o compat/winansi.o EXTLIBS += -lws2_32
>  	X = .exe
> -	gitexecdir = ../libexec/git-core
> -	template_dir = ../share/git-core/templates/
> -	ETC_GITCONFIG = ../etc/gitconfig
>  endif
>  ifneq (,$(findstring arm,$(uname_M)))
>  	ARM_SHA1 = YesPlease

This cannot be the complete patch. The part that sets $(prefix) to the empty 
string is missing, otherwise the runtime prefix discovery would never 
trigger, right? (But see also my comment on [PATCH 1/7].)

-- Hannes
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