From: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Date: Tue, 08 Sep 2009 06:20:55 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add more instructions about how to install git.
Message-ID: <vpqhbvekldk.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>
In-Reply-To: <81b0412b0909072244k21a4ddf6vdc38d9f713a4a084@mail.gmail.com>

Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com> writes:

> 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/