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From: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>
To: Alexy Khrabrov <deliverable@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: building git in a separate directory
Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2007 22:37:52 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070109033752.GD1904@spearce.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7c737f300701081930t755d9e61h581e421ecf7ab465@mail.gmail.com>

Alexy Khrabrov <deliverable@gmail.com> wrote:
> Tried to build git 1.4.4.1 away from the source directory -- said
> 
> make configure
> 
> -- which made a configure, switched to a separate build/ directory,
> invoked that/../configure -- which ran fine, except produced no
> Makefile!
> 
> What's the way to build git outside from the source directory?

I'm no sure that's supported right now.  Someone tried to submit
patches for it but I don't think they were applied.  The configure
script is really just a way to create a personal config.mak, which is
the "real" way to configure Git prior to compiling it with Makefile.

-- 
Shawn.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-01-09  3:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-01-09  3:30 building git in a separate directory Alexy Khrabrov
2007-01-09  3:37 ` Shawn O. Pearce [this message]
2007-01-09  3:40 ` Horst H. von Brand

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