Re: [PATCH] Add more instructions about how to install git.
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Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
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- Sep 8, 2009, 06:20 UTC
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Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com> writes:
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> On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 07:11, Thiago Farina<tfransosi@gmail.com> wrote: >> Signed-off-by: Thiago Farina <tfransosi@gmail.com> >> --- >> INSTALL | 9 +++++++++ >> 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) >> >> diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL >> index ae7f750..67abfc7 100644 >> --- a/INSTALL >> +++ b/INSTALL >> @@ -1,6 +1,15 @@ >> >> Git installation >> >> +To install git follow these 4 steps inside your git directory: >> +$ autoconf # Generates the configure file from configure.ac >> +$ ./configure # Configures everything needed to build git >> +$ make all # Compiles git based in the Makefile >> +$ make install # Installs git in your own ~/bin directory
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.
>> +If you don't have autoconf installed, you can do this by: >> +$ sudo apt-get install autoconf > > ... if you're on a Debian-derived system.
and if you have sudo configured.
BTW, apt-get is anyway somehow deprecaded, you should s/apt-get/aptitude/.
-- Matthieu Moy http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/