From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael J Gruber Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add more instructions about how to install git. Date: Tue, 08 Sep 2009 09:56:49 +0200 Message-ID: <4AA60E41.5050702@drmicha.warpmail.net> References: <1252386686-15689-1-git-send-email-tfransosi@gmail.com> <81b0412b0909072244k21a4ddf6vdc38d9f713a4a084@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Alex Riesen , Thiago Farina , git@vger.kernel.org To: Matthieu Moy X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Sep 08 09:57:12 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MkvZf-0001UK-PV for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Tue, 08 Sep 2009 09:57:12 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753967AbZIHH5A (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Sep 2009 03:57:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753939AbZIHH5A (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Sep 2009 03:57:00 -0400 Received: from out1.smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.25]:57185 "EHLO out1.smtp.messagingengine.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753897AbZIHH5A (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Sep 2009 03:57:00 -0400 Received: from compute2.internal (compute2.internal [10.202.2.42]) by gateway1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 856896907C; Tue, 8 Sep 2009 03:57:01 -0400 (EDT) Received: from heartbeat1.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.160]) by compute2.internal (MEProxy); Tue, 08 Sep 2009 03:57:01 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=messagingengine.com; h=message-id:date:from:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; s=smtpout; bh=Kcsz72Gc+IGHe4ELOpW+DIVEAPw=; b=Zn4F8yjoiKSVXhSqRpjKW3x5XWjFpUW4cx/kguqxqrBFiHytZQHEz8/k0e/GcaIWCAedmzl+FsMVLRtpJE42C0zE1ii92ntBlPmTUoCSGoF6ABByG6z4Wu0dbMmtblT2ZmcRRNf60RL5k/RhaOuyTClOwIHIai7idAAh6jbzWVE= X-Sasl-enc: 3Q1dwff2ZEn3xypho5xMgtkYc+iFZD6qHT5PtRjZysPh 1252396621 Received: from localhost.localdomain (heawood.math.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.44.4]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id B4A151362C; Tue, 8 Sep 2009 03:57:00 -0400 (EDT) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.4pre) Gecko/20090908 Lightning/1.0pre Shredder/3.0b4pre In-Reply-To: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Matthieu Moy venit, vidit, dixit 08.09.2009 08:20: > Alex Riesen writes: > >> On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 07:11, Thiago Farina wrote: >>> Signed-off-by: Thiago Farina >>> --- >>> INSTALL | 9 +++++++++ >>> 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) >>> >>> diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL >>> index ae7f750..67abfc7 100644 >>> --- a/INSTALL >>> +++ b/INSTALL >>> @@ -1,6 +1,15 @@ >>> >>> Git installation >>> >>> +To install git follow these 4 steps inside your git directory: >>> +$ autoconf # Generates the configure file from configure.ac >>> +$ ./configure # Configures everything needed to build git >>> +$ make all # Compiles git based in the Makefile >>> +$ make install # Installs git in your own ~/bin directory > > Your commit message doesn't say what's wrong with > > | Alternatively you can use autoconf generated ./configure script to > | set up install paths (via config.mak.autogen), so you can write > | instead > | > | $ make configure ;# as yourself > | $ ./configure --prefix=/usr ;# as yourself > | $ make all doc ;# as yourself > | # make install install-doc install-html;# as root > > which is already in INSTALL a few lines after what your patch adds. ... especially since that really is a second class alternative these days, with using the shipped Makefile being the preferred way - just as the current documentation states. > >>> +If you don't have autoconf installed, you can do this by: >>> +$ sudo apt-get install autoconf >> >> ... if you're on a Debian-derived system. > > and if you have sudo configured. > > BTW, apt-get is anyway somehow deprecaded, you should > s/apt-get/aptitude/. >