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From: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>
Subject: Re: building git in a separate directory
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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.