From: "Mike Ralphson" <mike.ralphson@gmail.com>
To: "Neale T. Pickett" <neale@lanl.gov>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, "Matthieu Moy" <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Subject: Re: git configure script
Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2008 09:25:32 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e2b179460811270125r2b64fc23sdcb244de0594fbc0@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <vpq7i6q8azp.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>
2008/11/26 Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
>
> neale@lanl.gov (Neale T. Pickett) writes:
>
> > But it installed everything in $HOME/bin and $HOME/libexec. Looking
> > into it, it seems the shipped Makefile doesn't look to see what --prefix
> > is, despite the configure script claiming that "make install" would
> > honor this.
>
> It does, since it includes config.mak.autogen which overrides prefix
> defined in Makefile.
>
> I'm 99% sure you did something wrong. You should investigate by
> looking into config.mak.autogen after running configure.
Indeed. I believe something goes a little funny if you build as root.
Can you try again running ./configure and (g)make as a non-root user,
then only (g)make install as root / under sudo etc.
Cheers, Mike
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-27 9:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-11-26 19:30 git configure script Neale T. Pickett
2008-11-26 20:53 ` Matthieu Moy
2008-11-27 9:25 ` Mike Ralphson [this message]
2008-12-01 19:12 ` Neale T. Pickett
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