Re: Installing without rebuilding

From: Benoit Sigoure <tsuna@lrde.epita.fr>
Date: Nov 11, 2007, 16:55 UTC
Message-ID: <8FE99206-EECF-4081-B4B7-82707FA4E863@lrde.epita.fr>
In-Reply-To: <8B92E213-17DB-4E83-B045-01CE0E7D26CB@silverinsanity.com>

On Nov 11, 2007, at 5:49 PM, Brian Gernhardt wrote:

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> Git has a very clever Makefile.  Sometimes its a little overly clever.
>
> 1) I use stow to manage my /usr/local directory.  With many other  
> programs I am able to build with a prefix of /usr/local and install  
> with a prefix of /usr/local/stow/$program.  Git detects a change in  
> the build variables and recompiles pretty much everything.
>
> 2) If I remove the old copy of git before installing the new, git  
> will notice this and again start a (smaller) recompile because the  
> GIT-VERSION-FILE file changes from something detailed like  
> "1.5.3.5.622.g6fd7a" to "1.5.3.GIT".
>
> Is there a way to tell git to be a bit less clever and just install  
> the already compiled program?  If not, would changing the Makefile  
> to read something like the following be accepted?
>
> ----- 8< -----
>
> install: all install-dumb
>
> install-dumb: # No rebuild!
>   # Current install process
>
> ----- 8< -----

I also stow git (which doesn't come with a make uninstall grrrrrr) and what I do is that I dropped the dependency of `install' on `all'. Also, I always install the new version before removing (stow - D) the previous one.

Cheers,

-- 
Benoit Sigoure aka Tsuna
EPITA Research and Development Laboratory