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Makefile: clarify runtime relative gitexecdir

Message ID 20221006013205.15015-1-congdanhqx@gmail.com (mailing list archive)
State Accepted
Commit ebb6c1660713e7924c14d251aa6297affaabe5f6
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Series Makefile: clarify runtime relative gitexecdir | expand

Commit Message

Đoàn Trần Công Danh Oct. 6, 2022, 1:32 a.m. UTC
"git" built with RUNTIME_PREFIX flag turned on could figure out
gitexecdir and other paths as relative to "git" executable.

However, in the section specifies gitexecdir, RUNTIME_PREFIX wasn't
mentioned, thus users may wrongly assume that "git" always locates
gitexecdir as relative path to the executable.

Let's clarify that only "git" built with RUNTIME_PREFIX will locate
gitexecdir as relative path.

Signed-off-by: Đoàn Trần Công Danh <congdanhqx@gmail.com>
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 Makefile | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index cac3452edb..8a58be440f 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -529,8 +529,9 @@  GIT-VERSION-FILE: FORCE
 #   template_dir
 #   sysconfdir
 # can be specified as a relative path some/where/else;
-# this is interpreted as relative to $(prefix) and "git" at
-# runtime figures out where they are based on the path to the executable.
+# this is interpreted as relative to $(prefix) and "git" built with
+# RUNTIME_PREFIX flag will figure out (at runtime) where they are
+# based on the path to the executable.
 # Additionally, the following will be treated as relative by "git" if they
 # begin with "$(prefix)/":
 #   mandir