Move computation of absolute paths from Makefile to runtime (in preparation for RUNTIME_PREFIX)

This commit prepares the Makefile for relocatable binaries (called
RUNTIME_PREFIX).  Such binaries will be able to be moved together
with the system configuration files to a different directory,
requiring to compute the prefix at runtime.

In a first step, we make all paths relative in the Makefile and
teach system_path() to add the prefix instead.  We used to compute
absolute paths in the Makefile and passed them to C as defines.  We
now pass relative paths to C and call system_path() to add the
prefix at runtime.

Signed-off-by: Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de>
Acked-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 2b873fa99f8ddc70c7560fd64a516a051afc3a7a..1d2060aa3f9082091955f8b9bf839de19fb71eaf 100644 (file)
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -179,28 +179,32 @@ STRIP ?= strip
 # Among the variables below, these:
 #   gitexecdir
 #   template_dir
+#   mandir
+#   infodir
 #   htmldir
 #   ETC_GITCONFIG (but not sysconfdir)
-# can be specified as a relative path ../some/where/else (which must begin
-# with ../); this is interpreted as relative to $(bindir) and "git" at
+# 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 can help installing the suite in a relocatable way.
 
 prefix = $(HOME)
-bindir = $(prefix)/bin
-mandir = $(prefix)/share/man
-infodir = $(prefix)/share/info
-gitexecdir = $(prefix)/libexec/git-core
+bindir_relative = bin
+bindir = $(prefix)/$(bindir_relative)
+mandir = share/man
+infodir = share/info
+gitexecdir = libexec/git-core
 sharedir = $(prefix)/share
-template_dir = $(sharedir)/git-core/templates
-htmldir=$(sharedir)/doc/git-doc
+template_dir = share/git-core/templates
+htmldir = share/doc/git-doc
 ifeq ($(prefix),/usr)
 sysconfdir = /etc
+ETC_GITCONFIG = $(sysconfdir)/gitconfig
 else
 sysconfdir = $(prefix)/etc
+ETC_GITCONFIG = etc/gitconfig
 endif
 lib = lib
-ETC_GITCONFIG = $(sysconfdir)/gitconfig
 # DESTDIR=
 
 # default configuration for gitweb
@@ -1086,6 +1090,7 @@ ETC_GITCONFIG_SQ = $(subst ','\'',$(ETC_GITCONFIG))
 
 DESTDIR_SQ = $(subst ','\'',$(DESTDIR))
 bindir_SQ = $(subst ','\'',$(bindir))
+bindir_relative_SQ = $(subst ','\'',$(bindir_relative))
 mandir_SQ = $(subst ','\'',$(mandir))
 infodir_SQ = $(subst ','\'',$(infodir))
 gitexecdir_SQ = $(subst ','\'',$(gitexecdir))
@@ -1251,7 +1256,12 @@ git.o git.spec \
        $(QUIET_CC)$(CC) -o $*.o -c $(ALL_CFLAGS) $<
 
 exec_cmd.o: exec_cmd.c GIT-CFLAGS
-       $(QUIET_CC)$(CC) -o $*.o -c $(ALL_CFLAGS) '-DGIT_EXEC_PATH="$(gitexecdir_SQ)"' $<
+       $(QUIET_CC)$(CC) -o $*.o -c $(ALL_CFLAGS) \
+               '-DGIT_EXEC_PATH="$(gitexecdir_SQ)"' \
+               '-DBINDIR="$(bindir_relative_SQ)"' \
+               '-DPREFIX="$(prefix_SQ)"' \
+               $<
+
 builtin-init-db.o: builtin-init-db.c GIT-CFLAGS
        $(QUIET_CC)$(CC) -o $*.o -c $(ALL_CFLAGS) -DDEFAULT_GIT_TEMPLATE_DIR='"$(template_dir_SQ)"' $<
 
@@ -1407,17 +1417,17 @@ remove-dashes:
 
 ### Installation rules
 
-ifeq ($(firstword $(subst /, ,$(template_dir))),..)
-template_instdir = $(bindir)/$(template_dir)
-else
+ifeq ($(abspath $(template_dir)),$(template_dir))
 template_instdir = $(template_dir)
+else
+template_instdir = $(prefix)/$(template_dir)
 endif
 export template_instdir
 
-ifeq ($(firstword $(subst /, ,$(gitexecdir))),..)
-gitexec_instdir = $(bindir)/$(gitexecdir)
-else
+ifeq ($(abspath $(gitexecdir)),$(gitexecdir))
 gitexec_instdir = $(gitexecdir)
+else
+gitexec_instdir = $(prefix)/$(gitexecdir)
 endif
 gitexec_instdir_SQ = $(subst ','\'',$(gitexec_instdir))
 export gitexec_instdir

diff --git a/builtin-help.c b/builtin-help.c
index f076efa9211ddcffdc81ffd7c0c56fdb197a11b0..9b57a746185719eb43c962c4adb96283657692e9 100644 (file)
--- a/builtin-help.c
+++ b/builtin-help.c
@@ -329,7 +329,7 @@ static void setup_man_path(void)
         * old_path, the ':' at the end will let 'man' to try
         * system-wide paths after ours to find the manual page. If
         * there is old_path, we need ':' as delimiter. */
-       strbuf_addstr(&new_path, GIT_MAN_PATH);
+       strbuf_addstr(&new_path, system_path(GIT_MAN_PATH));
        strbuf_addch(&new_path, ':');
        if (old_path)
                strbuf_addstr(&new_path, old_path);
@@ -375,7 +375,7 @@ static void show_man_page(const char *git_cmd)
 static void show_info_page(const char *git_cmd)
 {
        const char *page = cmd_to_page(git_cmd);
-       setenv("INFOPATH", GIT_INFO_PATH, 1);
+       setenv("INFOPATH", system_path(GIT_INFO_PATH), 1);
        execlp("info", "info", "gitman", page, NULL);
 }
 

diff --git a/exec_cmd.c b/exec_cmd.c
index cdd35f91954bdc751455e1083a0612a21eeadc67..114d6389e4703416aa2525bf9f81dd9597d627d4 100644 (file)
--- a/exec_cmd.c
+++ b/exec_cmd.c
@@ -9,11 +9,14 @@ static const char *argv0_path;
 
 const char *system_path(const char *path)
 {
-       if (!is_absolute_path(path) && argv0_path) {
-               struct strbuf d = STRBUF_INIT;
-               strbuf_addf(&d, "%s/%s", argv0_path, path);
-               path = strbuf_detach(&d, NULL);
-       }
+       static const char *prefix = PREFIX;
+       struct strbuf d = STRBUF_INIT;
+
+       if (is_absolute_path(path))
+               return path;
+
+       strbuf_addf(&d, "%s/%s", prefix, path);
+       path = strbuf_detach(&d, NULL);
        return path;
 }