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Re: git pull works remotely but not locally

From
Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Date
May 27, 2010, 19:53 UTC
Message-ID
<201005272153.54239.j6t@kdbg.org>
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<4BFE9172.9080209@llaisdy.com>
On Donnerstag, 27. Mai 2010, Ivan Uemlianin wrote:
> - I did configure with prefix=/opt
> - odd thing: nothing was installed into /opt: it all went into /root (I
> might have been root for the whole process, which I know is bad).  I
> just cp'd everything over to /opt, and everything worked OK (until now).
My guess is:
- You built as root.
- I don't know what went wrong with the command that involved prefix=/opt.
- But when you finally build using 'make', it picked the default prefix, which 
is /root when you are root.
- This hard-codes the libexec path to /root/libexec/git-core.
- Even after you copy the stuff to /opt, git looks in /root/libexec/...
- As a normal user you do not have access to /root, ergo, Permission denied.
Rebuild as normal user with
   make prefix=/opt
and install as root with
   make prefix=/opt install
(Yes, prefix must be given also for 'make install'.)
-- Hannes
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  10. Jeff KingMay 27, 2010
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  12. Ilari LiusvaaraMay 27, 2010
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