From: Neale T. Pickett <neale@lanl.gov>
Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2008 19:12:10 GMT
Subject: Re: git configure script
Message-ID: <njxk5aj3e2d.fsf@cfl-sunray1.lanl.gov>
In-Reply-To: <vpq7i6q8azp.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>

Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> writes:

> 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.

This gave me the tip I needed.  I was doing this in my Makefile:

    make -C git-1.6.0.4 install

Instead of this:

    cd git-1.6.0.4 && make install

Since the include was prefixed with "-", I didn't get any warnings or
errors about not being able to find config.mak.autogen, and it fell back
to the default.

I'm not sure using the -C option to make is "something wrong", but then
again I am apparently the first person to run into this problem, so it's
probably not a big deal.

Thanks for your help :)

Neale