On Sep 20, 2010, at 2:51 AM, Kevin Ballard wrote:
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> On Sep 19, 2010, at 6:31 PM, Andrew Keller wrote:
>> On Sep 19, 2010, at 9:07 PM, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
>>> "Andrew" == Andrew Keller <andrew@kellerfarm.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> Because I do not own the server and my account has restricted privileges, I attempted to augment my PATH to include a directory in my home folder, and then install git in there by specifying a prefix at the configure stage. The configure and the make work, but the make install fails. Here's the last section of the log:
>>>
>>> What's your PREFIX set to? If you set your prefix, the Perl modules are installed below the prefix, not in the system dirs.
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>> Here's what I executed:
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>> $ ./configure --prefix=/usr/users/students/ak4390/.local
>> $ make
>> $ make install
>>
>> I also tried providing the --oldincludedir and --datadir parameters, but I got the same result.
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> I admit, I'm not well-versed on the build system, but my impression was that specifying --prefix in ./configure was indeed supposed to propagate to a subsequent make and make install. However, you may wish to attempt the following to be sure:
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> $ make PREFIX=/usr/users/students/ak4390/.local
> $ make install PREFIX=/usr/users/students/ak4390/.local
Andrew Keller <andrew@kellerfarm.com>