From: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2007 03:37:52 GMT
Subject: Re: building git in a separate directory
Message-ID: <20070109033752.GD1904@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <7c737f300701081930t755d9e61h581e421ecf7ab465@mail.gmail.com>

Alexy Khrabrov <deliverable@gmail.com> wrote:
> Tried to build git 1.4.4.1 away from the source directory -- said
> 
> make configure
> 
> -- which made a configure, switched to a separate build/ directory,
> invoked that/../configure -- which ran fine, except produced no
> Makefile!
> 
> What's the way to build git outside from the source directory?

I'm no sure that's supported right now.  Someone tried to submit
patches for it but I don't think they were applied.  The configure
script is really just a way to create a personal config.mak, which is
the "real" way to configure Git prior to compiling it with Makefile.

-- 
Shawn.