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Re: git configure script

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Mike Ralphson <mike.ralphson@gmail.com>
Date
Nov 27, 2008, 09:25 UTC
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2008/11/26 Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
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> neale@lanl.gov (Neale T. Pickett) writes:
>
> > But it installed everything in $HOME/bin and $HOME/libexec.  Looking
> > into it, it seems the shipped Makefile doesn't look to see what --prefix
> > is, despite the configure script claiming that "make install" would
> > honor this.
>
> It does, since it includes config.mak.autogen which overrides prefix
> defined in Makefile.
>
> I'm 99% sure you did something wrong. You should investigate by
> looking into config.mak.autogen after running configure.

Indeed. I believe something goes a little funny if you build as root. Can you try again running ./configure and (g)make as a non-root user, then only (g)make install as root / under sudo etc.

Cheers, Mike
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