From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: walt <wa1ter@myrealbox.com>, Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>,
Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Does git belong in root's $PATH?
Date: Sat, 07 Jan 2006 12:49:04 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <43C02940.9040606@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0601071023250.3169@g5.osdl.org>
Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> Maybe it would be best to remove the "vmlinux" dependency from "make
> install" (so that "make install" will do exactly that: just install). I
> think all the documentation already tells you to do a "make" and then a
> "make install".
>
I would very much agree with this change; it's a nuisance that "make
install" can't be cleanly run as root without leaving root turds in the
build directory.
(Speaking as the person who did the original "make install" patch about
12 years ago.)
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-01-07 20:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-01-07 17:21 Does git belong in root's $PATH? walt
2006-01-07 18:03 ` Andreas Ericsson
2006-01-07 20:40 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-01-08 0:37 ` Andreas Ericsson
2006-01-08 0:39 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-01-08 1:22 ` walt
2006-01-08 3:00 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-01-07 18:31 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-01-07 20:49 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2006-01-07 23:01 ` Sam Ravnborg
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