Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 02/15] help: add shell-path to --build-options

From: Emily Shaffer <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2020 13:15:26 -0800

On Thu, Feb 20, 2020 at 11:03:59AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Emily Shaffer <[email-masked]> writes:
> 
> > It may be useful to know which shell Git was built to try to point to,
> > in the event that shell-based Git commands are failing. $SHELL_PATH is
> > set during the build and used to launch the manpage viewer, as well as
> > by git-compat-util.h, and it's used during tests. 'git version
> > --build-options' is encouraged for use in bug reports, so it makes sense
> > to include this information there.
> 
> It probably makes sense to capture PERL_PATH, PYTHON_PATH,
> TCLTK_PATH, and TCL_PATH, as they fall into exactly the same
> category as this one.

SHELL_PATH was already made sure to exist in git-compat-util.h before
this change; these other utility paths are not. Do you want me to add
them now?

> 
> > Signed-off-by: Emily Shaffer <[email-masked]>
> > ---
> >  help.c | 1 +
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/help.c b/help.c
> > index a21487db77..190722fb0a 100644
> > --- a/help.c
> > +++ b/help.c
> > @@ -654,6 +654,7 @@ int cmd_version(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
> >  			printf("no commit associated with this build\n");
> >  		printf("sizeof-long: %d\n", (int)sizeof(long));
> >  		printf("sizeof-size_t: %d\n", (int)sizeof(size_t));
> > +		printf("shell-path: %s\n", SHELL_PATH);
> >  		/* NEEDSWORK: also save and output GIT-BUILD_OPTIONS? */
> >  	}
> >  	return 0;