From: Junio C Hamano Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2005 21:29:32 GMT Subject: Re: Problem with template location Message-ID: <7vr79pbjcz.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> In-Reply-To: <200511092045.55300.alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk> Alan Chandler 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. Thanks Alan and Jon. This seems to be hitting some people so here is what I plan to push out. -- >8 -- cut here -- >8 -- Subject: Update INSTALL Explicitly mention how to install by hand in build-as-user and install-as-root steps. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- INSTALL | 9 ++++++--- 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) applies-to: 132cf7a143b9ed08e69399da6caa0c627d26f181 c44922a7817398d63bb2b46dc599bd05c710e746 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: --- 0.99.9.GIT