BUG?? INSTALL MAKEFILE

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.

Lars

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

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" ?
  

2009/1/6 Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>

Or run 'make' as root, as well as 'make install'?

Mike

After doing a

	git clean -f

in my local git repo, I notice that:

	config.mak.autogen

still exists, and inside it:

	prefix = /usr/local

That file is included in the Makefile *after* prefix is set, and so if it's not updated, the Makefile will default to /usr/local.

According to the INSTALL doc, the default prefix should be ~. However, this is certainly not the case. Either the INSTALL doc needs to be updated or a new default config.mak.autogen needs to be checked in (or perhaps config.mak.autogen needs to be omitted from the repo?).

--Ted

Ted Pavlic <ted@tedpavlic.com> writes:

I didn't read that in INSTALL. What I read is that if I only run "make install", the prefix is $HOME, which is true. Now, ./configure uses a default value which is not the one of the Makefile, but that's another point.

Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy <at> imag.fr> writes:

I am the same opinion

May be not, confuses newbies.

------ Lars

On Tue, 6 Jan 2009, Ted Pavlic wrote:

You need a "git clean -fx"

It's omitted from the repo, but it's in .gitignore so "git clean" doesn't remove it unless you tell it to remove ignored files.

	-Daniel
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DOH. I meant to do

	git clean -fx

(or just a git ls-files). That config.mak.autogen is certainly not checked into the repo, and a quick test confirms that "make install" certainly does set prefix to the home directory.

That being said, I'm sure that in the recent past I had to use configure to install git into home directories.

--Ted