Re: [PATCH v3] To make GIT-VERSION-FILE, search for git more widely

Am 09.05.2009, 18:55 Uhr, schrieb Junio C Hamano [off-list ref]:

"Matthias Andree" [off-list ref] writes:

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Fine then.  Or you could just append "." to the $PATH ;-)

"." in the super user's PATH? Cool stuff, and so innovative.

I didn't mean to suggest PATH=$PATH:. *in the user's environment* ;-).
You do that inside GIT-VERSION-FILE, which is essentially the same thing
as running ./git$X from there.

What's innovative is whoever is running build as root.

Back to the real problem, and that is re-checking GIT-VERSION-FILE as part
of "make install". I wonder if we should just have GIT-VERSION-GEN exit if
git isn't in $PATH, and at most copy version there -- rather than stomp
the DEF_VER somewhere.

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Matthias Andree