From: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@imag.fr>
Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2009 14:56:39 GMT
Subject: Re: BUG?? INSTALL MAKEFILE
Message-ID: <vpqiqosa3fc.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>
In-Reply-To: <49635BF8.1010700@sadau-online.de>

Lars Sadau <lars@sadau-online.de> writes:

> Hallo,
>
> 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" ?
  
-- 
Matthieu