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From: Thiago Farina <tfransosi@gmail.com>
To: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Cc: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add more instructions about how to install git.
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2009 11:24:37 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <a4c8a6d00909080724q1c792f6bs641ea9d000d08b5a@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <vpqhbvekldk.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>

On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 3:20 AM, Matthieu
Moy<Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr> wrote:
> 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.

I tried to being more explicit about what the new users has to do. The
first instruction that the text says is: "Normaly you can just do
"make"".
But the new user, cloning git won't have a configure file, so he can't
just do "make".

And then, the text says: "so you can write instead". This brings me to
one alternative (not what I really should do), when in fact it should
be (I guess) the first instructions that new users need to follow.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-09-08 14:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-08  5:11 [PATCH] Add more instructions about how to install git Thiago Farina
2009-09-08  5:44 ` Alex Riesen
2009-09-08  6:20   ` Matthieu Moy
2009-09-08  7:56     ` Michael J Gruber
2009-09-08 14:24     ` Thiago Farina [this message]
2009-09-08 14:37       ` Erik Faye-Lund
2009-09-08 14:38       ` Johannes Sixt
2009-09-08 14:52         ` Thiago Farina
2009-09-08 14:56           ` Mikael Magnusson
2009-09-08 15:19           ` Brian Gernhardt
2009-09-08 19:41           ` Matthieu Moy

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