From: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2011 17:01:50 GMT
Subject: Re: pull is not a git command - 1.7.6.4
Message-ID: <vpqr521j98h.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>
In-Reply-To: <CAPZPVFanWTpCDO+A0dV4TWUVx-22VjFOdk6f7cmgfU59GqG3sQ@mail.gmail.com>

Eugene Sajine <euguess@gmail.com> writes:

> On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 12:45 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>
>> Just a wild guess. perhaps you specified prefix=/usr/local/git-1.7.4.1/
>> eons ago when you built and installed 1.7.4.1 like this:
>>
>>    make prefix=/usr/local/git-1.7.4.1 all install
>>
>> and then you did it differently when you installed 1.7.6.4, e.g.
>>
>>    make all
>>    make prefix=/usr/local/git-1.7.6.4 install
>>
>>
>
>
> Are you saying that the first command is more correct?
> I will check it.

At build time, Git registers the "exec path" (i.e. where to find
git-<command> executables). So, if you run "make all" without specifying
the install path, Git will set an arbitrary exec-path, and the
installation won't work.

-- 
Matthieu Moy
http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/