Re: [PATCH] Add more instructions about how to install git.

From: Thiago Farina <tfransosi@gmail.com>
Date: Sep 8, 2009, 14:24 UTC
Message-ID: <a4c8a6d00909080724q1c792f6bs641ea9d000d08b5a@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <vpqhbvekldk.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>

On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 3:20 AM, Matthieu Moy<Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr> wrote:

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> Your commit message doesn't say what's wrong with
>
> | Alternatively you can use autoconf generated ./configure script to
> | set up install paths (via config.mak.autogen), so you can write
> | instead
> |
> |         $ make configure ;# as yourself
> |         $ ./configure --prefix=/usr ;# as yourself
> |         $ make all doc ;# as yourself
> |         # make install install-doc install-html;# as root
>
> which is already in INSTALL a few lines after what your patch adds.

I tried to being more explicit about what the new users has to do. The first instruction that the text says is: "Normaly you can just do "make"". But the new user, cloning git won't have a configure file, so he can't just do "make".

And then, the text says: "so you can write instead". This brings me to one alternative (not what I really should do), when in fact it should be (I guess) the first instructions that new users need to follow.