# Question about installing git from source 6 messages from 2014-12-23 to 2014-12-24. Participants: Alexander Kuleshov, Junio C Hamano. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/38231 ## Alexander Kuleshov, 2014-12-23 08:55 Subject: Question about installing git from source Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/CANCZXo42SdM8hMdTFYgvD8D%2BRmXua1oJvB%2BFfTjjfR%3DyWqhmkg%40mail.gmail.com ``` Hello All, Trying to install git from source, executing: make configure ./configure --prefix=/usr make --prefix=/usr all sudo make install DISTDIR=/usr And getting following: install -d -m 755 '/usr/usr/bin' Copying scripts to /usr/bin cp: omitting directory ‘autom4te.cache’ cp: omitting directory ‘bin-wrappers’ cp: omitting directory ‘block-sha1’ cp: omitting directory ‘builtin’ cp: omitting directory ‘compat’ cp: omitting directory ‘contrib’ cp: omitting directory ‘Documentation’ cp: omitting directory ‘ewah’ cp: omitting directory ‘git-gui’ cp: omitting directory ‘gitk-git’ cp: omitting directory ‘gitweb’ cp: omitting directory ‘mergetools’ cp: omitting directory ‘perl’ cp: omitting directory ‘po’ cp: omitting directory ‘ppc’ cp: omitting directory ‘t’ cp: omitting directory ‘templates’ cp: omitting directory ‘vcs-svn’ cp: omitting directory ‘xdiff’ Done What's problem can be here? Thank you. ``` ## Junio C Hamano, 2014-12-23 17:03 Subject: Re: Question about installing git from source Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/xmqqioh247th.fsf%40gitster.dls.corp.google.com In-Reply-To: ``` Alexander Kuleshov writes: > Trying to install git from source, executing: > > make configure > ./configure --prefix=/usr > make --prefix=/usr all > sudo make install DISTDIR=/usr That does not seem to match any of the ways how INSTALL tells us to build and install. Excerpts from INSTALL (1) ... If you want to do a global install, you can do $ make prefix=/usr all doc info ;# as yourself # make prefix=/usr install install-doc install-html install-info ;# as root Note how "prefix" is spelled. (2) Alternatively you can use autoconf generated ./configure script to set up install paths (via config.mak.autogen), so you can write instead $ make configure ;# as yourself $ ./configure --prefix=/usr ;# as yourself $ make all doc ;# as yourself # make install install-doc install-html;# as root Note how "make" does not have any "prefix". Also when you install to a temporary directory so that you can tar up the resulting hierarchy, the variable to use is spelled DESTDIR, e.g. make DESTDIR=/var/tmp/git-2.2.1 install install-doc > ... > What's problem can be here? Hopefully the above would be a good start to help you figure that out. ``` ## Alexander Kuleshov, 2014-12-23 17:13 Subject: Re: Question about installing git from source Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/CANCZXo4daZffQ7binFpHBy9adKKeuwHuR5VRixXUowMdgAdhTQ%40mail.gmail.com In-Reply-To: ``` Hell Junio, Look I download git from master, executed following: make configure make prefix=/usr all sudo make prefix=/usr install And got the same during installing: ~/dev/git $ sudo make prefix=/usr install GEN perl/PM.stamp SUBDIR perl /usr/bin/perl Makefile.PL PREFIX='/usr' INSTALL_BASE='' --localedir='/usr/share/locale' Generating a Unix-style perl.mak Writing perl.mak for Git Writing MYMETA.yml and MYMETA.json GEN git-add--interactive GEN git-difftool GEN git-archimport GEN git-cvsexportcommit GEN git-cvsimport GEN git-cvsserver GEN git-relink GEN git-send-email GEN git-svn GEN git-p4 SUBDIR gitweb SUBDIR ../ make[2]: 'GIT-VERSION-FILE' is up to date. GEN git-instaweb SUBDIR git-gui SUBDIR gitk-git SUBDIR perl /usr/bin/perl -pe "s<\Q++LOCALEDIR++\E>" blib/lib/Git/SVN/Prompt.pm /usr/bin/perl -pe "s<\Q++LOCALEDIR++\E>" blib/lib/Git/SVN/Editor.pm /usr/bin/perl -pe "s<\Q++LOCALEDIR++\E>" blib/lib/Git/SVN/Fetcher.pm /usr/bin/perl -pe "s<\Q++LOCALEDIR++\E>" blib/lib/Git/SVN/Utils.pm /usr/bin/perl -pe "s<\Q++LOCALEDIR++\E>" blib/lib/Git/SVN/Log.pm /usr/bin/perl -pe "s<\Q++LOCALEDIR++\E>" blib/lib/Git/SVN/Memoize/YAML.pm /usr/bin/perl -pe "s<\Q++LOCALEDIR++\E>" blib/lib/Git/SVN.pm /usr/bin/perl -pe "s<\Q++LOCALEDIR++\E>" blib/lib/Git/SVN/Migration.pm /usr/bin/perl -pe "s<\Q++LOCALEDIR++\E>" blib/lib/Git/IndexInfo.pm /usr/bin/perl -pe "s<\Q++LOCALEDIR++\E>" blib/lib/Git/SVN/GlobSpec.pm /usr/bin/perl -pe "s<\Q++LOCALEDIR++\E>" blib/lib/Git/SVN/Ra.pm /usr/bin/perl -pe "s<\Q++LOCALEDIR++\E>" blib/lib/Git.pm /usr/bin/perl -pe "s<\Q++LOCALEDIR++\E>" blib/lib/Git/I18N.pm SUBDIR templates install -d -m 755 '/usr/bin' Copying scripts to /usr/bin cp: omitting directory ‘bin-wrappers’ cp: omitting directory ‘block-sha1’ cp: omitting directory ‘builtin’ cp: omitting directory ‘compat’ cp: omitting directory ‘contrib’ cp: omitting directory ‘Documentation’ cp: omitting directory ‘ewah’ cp: omitting directory ‘git-gui’ cp: omitting directory ‘gitk-git’ ... 2014-12-23 23:03 GMT+06:00 Junio C Hamano : > Alexander Kuleshov writes: > >> Trying to install git from source, executing: >> >> make configure >> ./configure --prefix=/usr >> make --prefix=/usr all >> sudo make install DISTDIR=/usr > > That does not seem to match any of the ways how INSTALL tells us to > build and install. > > Excerpts from INSTALL > > (1) ... If you want to do a global install, you can do > > $ make prefix=/usr all doc info ;# as yourself > # make prefix=/usr install install-doc install-html install-info ;# as root > > Note how "prefix" is spelled. > > (2) Alternatively you can use autoconf generated ./configure > script to set up install paths (via config.mak.autogen), so > you can write instead > > $ make configure ;# as yourself > $ ./configure --prefix=/usr ;# as yourself > $ make all doc ;# as yourself > # make install install-doc install-html;# as root > > Note how "make" does not have any "prefix". > > Also when you install to a temporary directory so that you can tar > up the resulting hierarchy, the variable to use is spelled DESTDIR, > e.g. > > make DESTDIR=/var/tmp/git-2.2.1 install install-doc > >> ... >> What's problem can be here? > > Hopefully the above would be a good start to help you figure that > out. -- _________________________ 0xAX ``` ## Junio C Hamano, 2014-12-23 17:43 Subject: Re: Question about installing git from source Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/xmqq1tnq45yk.fsf%40gitster.dls.corp.google.com In-Reply-To: ``` Alexander Kuleshov writes: > install -d -m 755 '/usr/bin' > Copying scripts to /usr/bin As 'git grep "Copying scripts"' gives us nothing, the message is obviously not what we are giving. Perhaps you have a strange "install" in your path that does not understand "-d" is a way to tell it to make sure a directory exists (by creating one as necessary)? ``` ## Alexander Kuleshov, 2014-12-23 17:53 Subject: Re: Question about installing git from source Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/CANCZXo4q-TwH8WyqP1GYcUY-obWG1HAt8gSEs7jy5TJiUDG0HA%40mail.gmail.com In-Reply-To: ``` I looked at Makefile, and seems that it occurs from here: https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/Makefile#L2205 It tries to copy all files/folders from git root directory but 'install' command prints this error. I tried to execute 'sudo install -d -m 755' in other directory and if there is directory too it prints the same error. For example: ~/scripts $ ls addPPA cleanMailTrash git-autor git-ranges git-tp install scripts ssh-live term-help tp-git updateMail xray-start buildGit deployWork git-install git-remove-tags git-update-commit-message install.sh ssh-build ssh-wiwob-lab test updateGitDev updateNews test - is directory here ~/scripts $ sudo install -d -m 755 . Copying scripts to /usr/bin cp: omitting directory ‘test’ Done 2014-12-23 23:43 GMT+06:00 Junio C Hamano : > Alexander Kuleshov writes: > >> install -d -m 755 '/usr/bin' >> Copying scripts to /usr/bin > > As 'git grep "Copying scripts"' gives us nothing, the message is > obviously not what we are giving. Perhaps you have a strange "install" > in your path that does not understand "-d" is a way to tell it to > make sure a directory exists (by creating one as necessary)? > -- _________________________ 0xAX ``` ## Alexander Kuleshov, 2014-12-24 07:52 Subject: Re: Question about installing git from source Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/CANCZXo730yBxQEeCir2KZ4KxOn8RiOPyQf7Wd_AmTSR71H%2BNYQ%40mail.gmail.com In-Reply-To: ``` Yeah, was wrong install script. thank you. 2014-12-23 23:53 GMT+06:00 Alexander Kuleshov : > I looked at Makefile, and seems that it occurs from here: > https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/Makefile#L2205 > > It tries to copy all files/folders from git root directory but > 'install' command prints this error. I tried to execute 'sudo install > -d -m 755' in other directory and if there is directory too it prints > the same error. For example: > > ~/scripts $ ls > addPPA cleanMailTrash git-autor git-ranges git-tp > install scripts ssh-live term-help tp-git > updateMail xray-start > buildGit deployWork git-install git-remove-tags > git-update-commit-message install.sh ssh-build ssh-wiwob-lab test > updateGitDev updateNews > > test - is directory here > > ~/scripts $ sudo install -d -m 755 . > Copying scripts to /usr/bin > cp: omitting directory ‘test’ > Done > > 2014-12-23 23:43 GMT+06:00 Junio C Hamano : >> Alexander Kuleshov writes: >> >>> install -d -m 755 '/usr/bin' >>> Copying scripts to /usr/bin >> >> As 'git grep "Copying scripts"' gives us nothing, the message is >> obviously not what we are giving. Perhaps you have a strange "install" >> in your path that does not understand "-d" is a way to tell it to >> make sure a directory exists (by creating one as necessary)? >> > > > > -- > _________________________ > 0xAX -- _________________________ 0xAX ```