From: Brian Gernhardt <benji@silverinsanity.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 22:33:36 GMT
Subject: Re: Installing without rebuilding
Message-ID: <FA694907-4845-4102-8A74-F084F88626AE@silverinsanity.com>
In-Reply-To: <8B92E213-17DB-4E83-B045-01CE0E7D26CB@silverinsanity.com>


On Nov 11, 2007, at 11:49 AM, Brian Gernhardt wrote:

> Git has a very clever Makefile.  Sometimes its a little overly clever.

I found a way around the Makefile cleverness.  It's ugly, but it  
requires no changes to the existing Makefile.  I'm posting it in case  
anyone finds this thread trying to do what I'm doing.  My nieve  
suggestion fails, BTW, because git-gui's Makefile does the same  
cleverness.

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# Install ignoring version changes, etc.
ignore="-o GIT-VERSION-FILE -o GIT-CFLAGS -o GIT-GUI-VARS"
install="$ignore prefix=/usr/local/stow/git"
gitgui="$install gitexecdir=/usr/local/bin"
sudo make $install NO_TCLTK=Yes install install-doc
sudo make $gitgui -C git-gui install

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Why do I have to go through so many hoops just to install what I've  
already compiled?

~~ Brian