Re: Expected Behavior?
From: Junio C Hamano <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:42:11
Subsystem:
the rest · Maintainer:
Linus Torvalds
Possibly related (same subject, not in this thread)
- 2016-06-15 · Re: Expected Behavior? · Jon Loeliger <hidden>
- 2016-06-15 · Re: Expected Behavior? · Jon Loeliger <hidden>
- 2016-06-15 · Re: Expected Behavior? · Junio C Hamano <hidden>
- 2016-06-15 · Re: Expected Behavior? · Petr Baudis <hidden>
- 2016-06-15 · Re: Expected Behavior? · Fredrik Kuivinen <hidden>
Jon Loeliger [off-list ref] writes:
Normally you can just do "make" followed by "make install", and that
will install the git programs in your own ~/bin/ directory. If you want
to do a global install, you can do
make prefix=/usr install
I ran "make" as myself, and then later
I ran "make prefix=/usr install" as root.Would this be explicit enough? -- >8 -- cut here -- >8 --
diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index bbb13f3..b2cdb31 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL@@ -7,8 +7,10 @@ to do a global install, you can do make prefix=/usr install -(or prefix=/usr/local, of course). Some day somebody may send me a RPM -spec file or something, and you can do "make rpm" or whatever. +(or prefix=/usr/local, of course). Just like any program suite +that uses $prefix, the built results have some paths encoded, +which are derived from $prefix, so "make all; make prefix=/usr +install" would not work. Issues of note: