Re: Bug: Install from .tar.xz fails without write permission on /usr/local/share/man/man3

From: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>
Date: May 31, 2018, 18:33 UTC
Message-ID: <CAP8UFD10BW=WYmv2Vz8cFCt1OofpsrhBGR0z7C5tp0ixrpwwgg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <d464115b7c2ee5f9084ae9bd33cebea1@posteo.de>

Hi,

On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 6:30 PM,  <mlell@posteo.de> wrote:

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> I was trying to build git 2.9.5 as a normal user, as I have no root access
> on a cluster with outdated software.
>
> The build fails, unless I change the PREFIX=/usr/local line in
> per/perl.mak:80 to a folder where I have write permission.
> Apparently, perl.mak does not honour the --prefix= setting of ./configure.
>
> Is it possible to change perl.mak to honor the PREFIX?

I don't think we will support old versions like v2.9.X.

There was a security release and we only released v2.17.1, v2.13.7, v2.14.4, v2.15.2 and v2.16.4:

https://public-inbox.org/git/xmqqy3g2flb6.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com/

So it looks like v2.13.X is the oldest version we support. Do you really need v2.9.5?

Best, Christian.