Re: Compilation pb of git-1.7.0.5

From: Yves Caniou <yves.caniou@ens-lyon.fr>
Date: Apr 19, 2010, 08:50 UTC
Message-ID: <201004191050.33790.yves.caniou@ens-lyon.fr>
In-Reply-To: <4BCC163E.3050808@drmicha.warpmail.net>

Le Monday 19 April 2010 10:37:18 Michael J Gruber, vous avez écrit :

> Sverre Rabbelier venit, vidit, dixit 19.04.2010 08:26:
> > Heya,
> >
> > On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 07:59, Yves Caniou <yves.caniou@ens-lyon.fr>

wrote:

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> >> After the ./configure --prefix=$HOME/git, the make all gives me
> >
> > Which revision are you trying to compile? Also, it's probably more
> > helpful to just post the result of 'make all' verbatim, rather than
> > snippets.
>
> ...and try to use make directly rather than configure, which isn't
> maintained that well.

That's what I did, but maybe you didn't saw my mail. It works fine, because Cc doesn't overide gcc. So I can install. I don't know if you want to look at the errors or not, but if not, maybe adding some info in known issues?

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> I wonder whether we should hide configure somehow. If you see a Makefile
> and configure and don't know the project, the natural impulse is to use
> configure before make.
>
> Michael

Indeed, the natural reflex is to make a ./configure --help to have the options, and use ./configure. I saw the first lines in the INSTALL file, describing "make prefix=" but just made like I'm used to.

Thx.

.Yves.