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Re: [PATCH] Add more instructions about how to install git.

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Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@googlemail.com>
Date
Sep 8, 2009, 14:37 UTC
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On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 4:24 PM, Thiago Farina<tfransosi@gmail.com> wrote:
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> I tried to being more explicit about what the new users has to do. The
> first instruction that the text says is: "Normaly you can just do
> "make"".
> But the new user, cloning git won't have a configure file, so he can't
> just do "make".

I think you are confused. There's a default Makefile there, so a normal user CAN just call "make". What a new user can't do, is to call "./configure" without generating the configure-script first. There are already instructions on how to do this.

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Message 6 of 11 in “Add more instructions about how to install git.”
  1. Add more instructions about how to install git.Thiago Farina, Sep 8, 2009
  2. Alex RiesenSep 8, 2009
  3. Matthieu MoySep 8, 2009
  4. Michael J GruberSep 8, 2009
  5. Thiago FarinaSep 8, 2009
  6. Erik Faye-LundSep 8, 2009
  7. Johannes SixtSep 8, 2009
  8. Thiago FarinaSep 8, 2009
  9. Mikael MagnussonSep 8, 2009
  10. Brian GernhardtSep 8, 2009
  11. Matthieu MoySep 8, 2009

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