# BUG?? INSTALL MAKEFILE 8 messages from 2009-01-06 to 2009-01-07. Participants: Lars Sadau, Matthieu Moy, Mike Ralphson, Ted Pavlic, Daniel Barkalow. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/17022 ## Lars Sadau, 2009-01-06 13:26 Subject: BUG?? INSTALL MAKEFILE Message-ID: <49635BF8.1010700@sadau-online.de> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/49635BF8.1010700%40sadau-online.de ``` 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 ``` ## Matthieu Moy, 2009-01-06 14:56 Subject: Re: BUG?? INSTALL MAKEFILE Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/vpqiqosa3fc.fsf%40bauges.imag.fr In-Reply-To: <49635BF8.1010700@sadau-online.de> ``` Lars Sadau 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 $(HOME) by default. Are you sure you didn't edit the Makefile or run any sort of ./configure before "make install" ? -- Matthieu ``` ## Mike Ralphson, 2009-01-06 15:22 Subject: Re: BUG?? INSTALL MAKEFILE Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/e2b179460901060722t32a1cb0o15af1a2084cc72f9%40mail.gmail.com In-Reply-To: ``` 2009/1/6 Matthieu Moy > Lars Sadau writes: > > i'm a brand-new git user. Just one minute ago I wanted to install git in > > my home directory. The INSTALL file says type simply "make install", but > > the makefile does a global installation. > > I was going to write: > > Either run ./configure --prefix=$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" ? Or run 'make' as root, as well as 'make install'? Mike ``` ## Ted Pavlic, 2009-01-06 16:26 Subject: Re: BUG?? INSTALL MAKEFILE Message-ID: <49638625.3090109@tedpavlic.com> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/49638625.3090109%40tedpavlic.com In-Reply-To: ``` > 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" ? 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 ``` ## Matthieu Moy, 2009-01-06 17:17 Subject: Re: BUG?? INSTALL MAKEFILE Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/vpqzli45p6q.fsf%40bauges.imag.fr In-Reply-To: <49638625.3090109@tedpavlic.com> ``` Ted Pavlic writes: > According to the INSTALL doc, the default prefix should be ~. 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 ``` ## Daniel Barkalow, 2009-01-06 17:24 Subject: Re: BUG?? INSTALL MAKEFILE Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/alpine.LNX.1.00.0901061210250.19665%40iabervon.org In-Reply-To: <49638625.3090109@tedpavlic.com> ``` On Tue, 6 Jan 2009, Ted Pavlic wrote: > > 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" ? > > After doing a > > git clean -f You need a "git clean -fx" > 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?). 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 *This .sig left intentionally blank* ``` ## Ted Pavlic, 2009-01-06 19:44 Subject: Re: BUG?? INSTALL MAKEFILE Message-ID: <4963B497.4000104@tedpavlic.com> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/4963B497.4000104%40tedpavlic.com In-Reply-To: <49638625.3090109@tedpavlic.com> ``` > git clean -f 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 -- Ted Pavlic ``` ## Lars Sadau, 2009-01-07 10:44 Subject: Re: BUG?? INSTALL MAKEFILE Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/loom.20090107T104303-14%40post.gmane.org In-Reply-To: ``` Matthieu Moy imag.fr> writes: > > Ted Pavlic tedpavlic.com> writes: > > > According to the INSTALL doc, the default prefix should be ~. I am the same opinion > 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. > May be not, confuses newbies. ------ Lars ```