On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 8:23 PM, Junio C Hamano <gits...@pobox.com> wrote:
>> This is wrong. >> >> Currently with symlinks you will get installed into bindir something >> like this: >> >> git >> git-tag -> git >> git-show -> git >> >> etc. >> >> With your change you would have >> >> git >> git-tag -> /usr/local/libexec/git-core/git >> git-show -> /usr/local/libexec/git-core/git >> >> And I don't think we want that. While those absolute path symlinks >> are technically correct,... > > It is not even correct, is it? > > When DESTDIR is set to allow you to install into a temporary place > only so that you can "tar" up the resulting filesystem tree, bindir > points at the location we need to "cp" the built programs into, i.e. > inside DESTDIR. Agreed folks, please disregard this as well as 2/2 of this series. -- Sebastian Schuberth -- 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
