From: "Mike Ralphson" <mike.ralphson@gmail.com>
To: "Lars Sadau" <lars@sadau-online.de>
Cc: "Matthieu Moy" <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: BUG?? INSTALL MAKEFILE
Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 15:22:26 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e2b179460901060722t32a1cb0o15af1a2084cc72f9@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <vpqiqosa3fc.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>
2009/1/6 Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
> Lars Sadau <lars@sadau-online.de> writes:
> > i'm a brand-new git user. Just one minute ago I wanted to install git in
> > my home directory. The INSTALL file says type simply "make install", but
> > the makefile does a global installation.
>
> I was going to write:
>
> Either run ./configure --prefix=$HOME/wherever/you/want or edit the
> prefix variable in config.mak.
>
> but then realized that prefix is set to $(HOME) by default. Are you
> sure you didn't edit the Makefile or run any sort of ./configure
> before "make install" ?
Or run 'make' as root, as well as 'make install'?
Mike
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-06 15:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-06 13:26 BUG?? INSTALL MAKEFILE Lars Sadau
2009-01-06 14:56 ` Matthieu Moy
2009-01-06 15:22 ` Mike Ralphson [this message]
2009-01-06 16:26 ` Ted Pavlic
2009-01-06 17:17 ` Matthieu Moy
2009-01-07 10:44 ` Lars Sadau
2009-01-06 17:24 ` Daniel Barkalow
2009-01-06 19:44 ` Ted Pavlic
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