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msysgit won't install as per instructions

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AYAnthony W. Youngman <wol@thewolery.demon.co.uk>
Date
Oct 29, 2009, 12:38 UTC
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I want to do some work on git-daemon under msysgit. And as a newbie to git it could well be I'm just being stupid, but ...

I installed msysgit, did a clone on the msysgit repository, and followed the instructions, namely double-click on msys.bat. It falls over with "no target for make install" - I know make well enough to know that *sounds* *like* a messed up makefile. But lack of experience means trying to track how it got there defeats me. The error output is below.

Cheers, Wol

------------------------------------------------------- Building and Installing Git ------------------------------------------------------- make: *** No rule to make target `install'. Stop.

------------------------- Hello, dear Git developer.

This is a minimal MSYS environment to work on Git.
Your build failed...  Please fix it, and give feedback on the Git list.
Welcome to msysGit

Run 'git help git' to display the help index. Run 'git help <command>' to display help for specific commands. Run '/share/msysGit/add-shortcut.tcl' to add a shortcut to msysGit. bash: /git/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash: No such file or directory bash: __git_ps1: command not found

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Anthony W. Youngman - anthony@thewolery.demon.co.uk
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  1. Anthony W. YoungmanOct 29, 2009

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