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From: walt <wa1ter@myrealbox.com>
Subject: Re: Problems installing as root
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2007 17:32:03 -0800
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Junio C Hamano wrote:
> walt <wa1ter@myrealbox.com> writes:

>> 'make install' as root leaves dozens of files owned by root
>> in my personal source directory...

> Does 'make all' followed by 'make install' do the same?  If so
> these are indeed very bad.
> 
> If you run 'make all', and then if you run, without changing
> anything to cause rebuilding, run 'make install', the build
> procedure should not create _any_ new file.  Otherwise the build
> procedure is broken and needs to be fixed.

'make all' does exactly the same thing.  (The Makefile says that
'make all' is the default target, so it should behave the same,
no?)

Thanks.