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From: Kevin Ballard <kevin@sb.org>
To: Andrew Keller <andrew@kellerfarm.com>
Cc: Git List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Reduced privileges install
Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2010 23:51:54 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <677DFF75-2DBB-4772-802B-4402E4024307@sb.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6BE502C9-5507-452D-A5D5-D0C69C05F126@kellerfarm.com>

On Sep 19, 2010, at 6:31 PM, Andrew Keller wrote:

> On Sep 19, 2010, at 9:07 PM, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
>> "Andrew" == Andrew Keller <andrew@kellerfarm.com> writes:
>> 
>>> Because I do not own the server and my account has restricted privileges, I attempted to augment my PATH to include a directory in my home folder, and then install git in there by specifying a prefix at the configure stage.  The configure and the make work, but the make install fails.  Here's the last section of the log:
>> 
>> What's your PREFIX set to?  If you set your prefix, the Perl modules are installed below the prefix, not in the system dirs.
> 
> 
> Here's what I executed:
> 
> $ ./configure --prefix=/usr/users/students/ak4390/.local
> $ make
> $ make install
> 
> I also tried providing the --oldincludedir and --datadir parameters, but I got the same result.

I admit, I'm not well-versed on the build system, but my impression was that specifying --prefix in ./configure was indeed supposed to propagate to a subsequent make and make install. However, you may wish to attempt the following to be sure:

$ make PREFIX=/usr/users/students/ak4390/.local
$ make install PREFIX=/usr/users/students/ak4390/.local

-Kevin Ballard

  reply	other threads:[~2010-09-20  6:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-09-19 23:50 Reduced privileges install Andrew Keller
2010-09-20  1:07 ` Randal L. Schwartz
2010-09-20  1:31   ` Andrew Keller
2010-09-20  6:51     ` Kevin Ballard [this message]
2010-09-20 14:06       ` Andrew Keller
2010-09-20 14:40       ` Matthieu Moy
2010-09-20 14:52         ` Randal L. Schwartz
2010-09-20 15:48         ` Andrew Keller
2010-09-20 14:53 ` Brandon Casey
2010-09-20 16:56   ` Andrew Keller
2010-09-20 17:01     ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-09-20 20:28       ` Andrew Keller
2010-09-20 19:12     ` Brandon Casey
2010-09-20 19:18       ` Brandon Casey
2010-09-20 20:39         ` Andrew Keller
2010-09-20 22:53       ` Andrew Keller
2010-09-20 23:20         ` Brandon Casey

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