From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kevin Ballard Subject: Re: Reduced privileges install Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2010 23:51:54 -0700 Message-ID: <677DFF75-2DBB-4772-802B-4402E4024307@sb.org> References: <325786BC-5F54-47B5-AEF5-7FDAD9BEA4BA@kellerfarm.com> <86k4mhfcj1.fsf@red.stonehenge.com> <6BE502C9-5507-452D-A5D5-D0C69C05F126@kellerfarm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1081) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Cc: Git List To: Andrew Keller X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Sep 20 08:52:06 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OxaEN-0000Gd-Pr for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Mon, 20 Sep 2010 08:52:04 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752817Ab0ITGv5 (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Sep 2010 02:51:57 -0400 Received: from mail-px0-f174.google.com ([209.85.212.174]:47242 "EHLO mail-px0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752157Ab0ITGv4 convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Sep 2010 02:51:56 -0400 Received: by pxi10 with SMTP id 10so1060761pxi.19 for ; Sun, 19 Sep 2010 23:51:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.142.69.1 with SMTP id r1mr7324009wfa.119.1284965516418; Sun, 19 Sep 2010 23:51:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [10.0.1.14] ([24.130.32.253]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id v6sm761760wfg.3.2010.09.19.23.51.55 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sun, 19 Sep 2010 23:51:55 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <6BE502C9-5507-452D-A5D5-D0C69C05F126@kellerfarm.com> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1081) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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 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