Question

I’m trying to “portablize” git, so I want to send the required executables from the make process of git to my hosted web server. Can I do that? Do you think the executables will work?

Answer 1

The way I do it is to:

• get all Git dependencies (as listed in this Solaris package site, but this works for any Unix platform)
• compile those dependencies with --prefix=/home/myuser and install them in the usr/local/lib of my home directory
• then compile Git (still avoiding any reference to a system path like /usr/local/lib, but only using the lib and include within my homedir)
• and install Git in the /home/myuser/git directory

I can then copy only /home/myuser/git and /home/myuser/usr/local (and $prefix/libexec/git-core as Jakub mentions in the comments) to any other similar server, knowing it will work in isolation from any existing system libraries.