From: Eugene Sajine <euguess@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2011 18:10:33 GMT
Subject: Re: pull is not a git command - 1.7.6.4
Message-ID: <CAPZPVFZKNdDcnaVn237gArqdBuc4ek77vxsp8BMaicARBTKqBg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <vpqr521j98h.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>

On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 1:01 PM, Matthieu Moy
<Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr> wrote:
> Eugene Sajine <euguess@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 12:45 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Just a wild guess. perhaps you specified prefix=/usr/local/git-1.7.4.1/
>>> eons ago when you built and installed 1.7.4.1 like this:
>>>
>>>    make prefix=/usr/local/git-1.7.4.1 all install
>>>
>>> and then you did it differently when you installed 1.7.6.4, e.g.
>>>
>>>    make all
>>>    make prefix=/usr/local/git-1.7.6.4 install
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> Are you saying that the first command is more correct?
>> I will check it.
>
> At build time, Git registers the "exec path" (i.e. where to find
> git-<command> executables). So, if you run "make all" without specifying
> the install path, Git will set an arbitrary exec-path, and the
> installation won't work.
>
> --
> Matthieu Moy
> http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/
>

Matthieu/Junio,

Thank you very much for your help - there was a mistake made during
the build where the exec path folder was incorrect and unreachable.

Thanks!