Re: Question about installing git from source

From: Alexander Kuleshov <kuleshovmail@gmail.com>
Date: Dec 23, 2014, 17:53 UTC
Message-ID: <CANCZXo4q-TwH8WyqP1GYcUY-obWG1HAt8gSEs7jy5TJiUDG0HA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqq1tnq45yk.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>

I looked at Makefile, and seems that it occurs from here: https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/Makefile#L2205

It tries to copy all files/folders from git root directory but 'install' command prints this error. I tried to execute 'sudo install -d -m 755' in other directory and if there is directory too it prints the same error. For example:

~/scripts $ ls
addPPA    cleanMailTrash  git-autor    git-ranges       git-tp
            install     scripts    ssh-live       term-help  tp-git
    updateMail  xray-start
buildGit  deployWork      git-install  git-remove-tags
git-update-commit-message  install.sh  ssh-build  ssh-wiwob-lab  test
     updateGitDev  updateNews

test - is directory here

~/scripts $ sudo install -d -m 755 . Copying scripts to /usr/bin cp: omitting directory ‘test’ Done

2014-12-23 23:43 GMT+06:00 Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>:

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> Alexander Kuleshov <kuleshovmail@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> install -d -m 755 '/usr/bin'
>> Copying scripts to /usr/bin
>
> As 'git grep "Copying scripts"' gives us nothing, the message is
> obviously not what we are giving.  Perhaps you have a strange "install"
> in your path that does not understand "-d" is a way to tell it to
> make sure a directory exists (by creating one as necessary)?
>

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