Re: BUG?? INSTALL MAKEFILE

From: Mike Ralphson <mike.ralphson@gmail.com>
Date: Jan 6, 2009, 15:22 UTC
Message-ID: <e2b179460901060722t32a1cb0o15af1a2084cc72f9@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <vpqiqosa3fc.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>

2009/1/6 Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>

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> Lars Sadau <lars@sadau-online.de> writes:
> > i'm a brand-new git user. Just one minute ago I wanted to install git in
> > my home directory. The INSTALL file says type simply "make install", but
> > the makefile does a global installation.
>
> I was going to write:
>
>  Either run ./configure --prefix=$HOME/wherever/you/want or edit the
>  prefix variable in config.mak.
>
> but then realized that prefix is set to $(HOME) by default. Are you
> sure you didn't edit the Makefile or run any sort of ./configure
> before "make install" ?

Or run 'make' as root, as well as 'make install'?

Mike