{"thread":{"id":"6293","subject":"building git in a separate directory","startedAt":"2007-01-09T03:30:54Z","lastAt":"2007-01-09T03:37:52Z","messageCount":2,"participants":["Alexy Khrabrov","Shawn O. Pearce"],"isPatch":false,"patchVersion":null,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"31184","messageId":"7c737f300701081930t755d9e61h581e421ecf7ab465@mail.gmail.com","threadId":"6293","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"building git in a separate directory","fromName":"Alexy Khrabrov","fromEmail":"deliverable@gmail.com","sentAt":"2007-01-09T03:30:54Z","receivedAt":"2007-01-09T03:30:54Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"deliverable@gmail.com","avatar":null},"body":"Tried to build git 1.4.4.1 away from the source directory -- said\n\nmake configure\n\n-- which made a configure, switched to a separate build/ directory,\ninvoked that/../configure -- which ran fine, except produced no\nMakefile!\n\nWhat's the way to build git outside from the source directory?\n\nCheers,\nAlexy\n"},{"id":"31186","messageId":"20070109033752.GD1904@spearce.org","threadId":"6293","inReplyTo":"7c737f300701081930t755d9e61h581e421ecf7ab465@mail.gmail.com","subject":"Re: building git in a separate directory","fromName":"Shawn O. Pearce","fromEmail":"spearce@spearce.org","sentAt":"2007-01-09T03:37:52Z","receivedAt":"2007-01-09T03:37:52Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"spearce@spearce.org","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/34844?v=4"},"body":"Alexy Khrabrov <deliverable@gmail.com> wrote:\n> Tried to build git 1.4.4.1 away from the source directory -- said\n> \n> make configure\n> \n> -- which made a configure, switched to a separate build/ directory,\n> invoked that/../configure -- which ran fine, except produced no\n> Makefile!\n> \n> What's the way to build git outside from the source directory?\n\nI'm no sure that's supported right now.  Someone tried to submit\npatches for it but I don't think they were applied.  The configure\nscript is really just a way to create a personal config.mak, which is\nthe \"real\" way to configure Git prior to compiling it with Makefile.\n\n-- \nShawn.\n"}]}