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Re: Question about installing git from source

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Alexander Kuleshov <kuleshovmail@gmail.com>
Date
Dec 24, 2014, 07:52 UTC
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Yeah, was wrong install script.
thank you.
2014-12-23 23:53 GMT+06:00 Alexander Kuleshov <kuleshovmail@gmail.com>:
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> 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>:
>> 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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