From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: neale@lanl.gov (Neale T. Pickett) Subject: git configure script Date: 26 Nov 2008 12:30:08 -0700 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Nov 26 21:11:43 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1L5QjZ-00061y-K8 for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Wed, 26 Nov 2008 21:11:38 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752408AbYKZUKQ (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Nov 2008 15:10:16 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752301AbYKZUKQ (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Nov 2008 15:10:16 -0500 Received: from proofpoint3.lanl.gov ([204.121.3.28]:59661 "EHLO proofpoint3.lanl.gov" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752092AbYKZUKP (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Nov 2008 15:10:15 -0500 X-Greylist: delayed 2404 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Wed, 26 Nov 2008 15:10:15 EST Received: from mailrelay1.lanl.gov (mailrelay1.lanl.gov [128.165.4.101]) by proofpoint3.lanl.gov (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id mAQJUBf9030424 for ; Wed, 26 Nov 2008 12:30:11 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by mailrelay1.lanl.gov (Postfix) with ESMTP id 32B1E341158 for ; Wed, 26 Nov 2008 12:30:11 -0700 (MST) X-NIE-2-Virus-Scanner: amavisd-new at mailrelay1.lanl.gov Received: from ccn-mail.lanl.gov (ccn-mail.lanl.gov [128.165.4.105]) by mailrelay1.lanl.gov (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C1B5340CDE for ; Wed, 26 Nov 2008 12:30:11 -0700 (MST) Received: from cfl-sunray1.lanl.gov (cfl-sunray1.lanl.gov [128.165.5.23]) by ccn-mail.lanl.gov (Postfix) with ESMTP id 511271D0005 for ; Wed, 26 Nov 2008 12:30:08 -0700 (MST) User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 X-NIE-2-MailScanner-Information: Please see http://network.lanl.gov/email/virus-scan.php X-NIE-2-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-NIE-2-MailScanner-From: neale@lanl.gov X-Spam-Status: No X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=fsecure engine=4.65.7400:2.4.4,1.2.40,4.0.164 definitions=2008-11-26_12:2008-11-24,2008-11-26,2008-11-26 signatures=0 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: I downloaded 1.6.0.4 from http://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/git-1.6.0.4.tar.gz and ran ./configure --prefix=$HOME/opt 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. I'm guessing it should have shipped with a Makefile.in or something, but honestly Autoconf confuses the dickens out of me. Neale