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From: "Mike Ralphson" <mike.ralphson@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: BUG?? INSTALL MAKEFILE
Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 15:22:26 +0000
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To: "Lars Sadau" <lars@sadau-online.de>
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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