Re: Problem with template location

From

Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>

Date

Nov 9, 2005, 21:29 UTC

Message-ID

<7vr79pbjcz.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

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<200511092045.55300.alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk>

Alan Chandler <alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk> writes:

> I don't know whether this is something that can be fixed at install time, or 
> whether the README should be changed to make it clear that you need the 
> prefix on the first stage of the process as well as the second.

-- >8 -- cut here -- >8 --
Subject: Update INSTALL

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>

---

 INSTALL |    9 ++++++---
 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index bbb13f3..06b11e1 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -5,10 +5,13 @@ Normally you can just do "make" followed
 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
+	$ make prefix=/usr ;# as yourself
+	# make prefix=/usr install ;# as root
 
-(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.
 
 Issues of note:
 
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0.99.9.GIT