From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2005 20:38:29 GMT
Subject: Re: Expected Behavior?
Message-ID: <7v1x1peeuy.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <E1EZqAA-0002B0-Un@jdl.com>

Jon Loeliger <jdl@freescale.com> writes:

>     Normally you can just do "make" followed by "make install", and that
>     will install the git programs in your own ~/bin/ directory.  If you want
>     to do a global install, you can do
>
> 	    make prefix=/usr install
>
> I ran "make" as myself, and then later
> I ran "make prefix=/usr install" as root.

Would this be explicit enough?

-- >8 -- cut here -- >8 --

diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index bbb13f3..b2cdb31 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -7,8 +7,10 @@ to do a global install, you can do
 
 	make prefix=/usr install
 
-(or prefix=/usr/local, of course).  Some day somebody may send me a RPM
-spec file or something, and you can do "make rpm" or whatever.
+(or prefix=/usr/local, of course).  Just like any program suite
+that uses $prefix, the built results have some paths encoded,
+which are derived from $prefix, so "make all; make prefix=/usr
+install" would not work.
 
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