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Re: Is it possible to build `git` such that the install directory and the deployment prefix is not the same?

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Nov 28, 2015, 07:54 UTC
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Henry Qin <root@hq6.me> writes:
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> Here is the question, copied below for your convenience:
>
> """
> I am attempting to build git from source, and I would like make
> install to put the binaries into a directory called dist in my source
> directory, so I use the following configure line.
>
> ./configure --prefix=`pwd`/dist
You probably want to use DESTDIR instead, e.g.
    $ make prefix=/usr/local DESTDIR=/var/tmp/dest

The standard way to phrase your question is "how do I 'make install' to install to a fake location so that I can tar up the result into a tarball?" (the key part being "so that..."), I think.

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