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To start the git-annex webapp, run the git-annex-webapp script in this
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directory.
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To enter an environment with git-annex in PATH, use runshell
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This should work on any Linux system of the appropriate architecture.
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More or less. There are no external dependencies, except for glibc.
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Any recent-ish version of glibc should work (2.13 is ok; so is 2.11).
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How it works: This directory contains a lot of libraries and programs
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that git-annex needs. But it's not a chroot. Instead, runshell sets
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PATH and LD_LIBRARY_PATH to point to the stuff in this directory.
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The glibc libs are not included. Instead, it runs with the host system's
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glibc. We trust that glibc's excellent backwards and forward compatability
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is good enough to run binaries that were linked for a newer or older
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version. Of course, this could fail. Particularly if the binaries try to
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use some new glibc feature. But hopefully not.
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Why not bundle glibc too? I've not gotten it to work! The host system's
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ld-linux.so will be used for sure, as that's hardcoded into the binaries.
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When I tried including libraries from glibc in here, everything segfaulted.
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