Re: Problem with template location

Alan Chandler [off-list ref] writes:

I don't know whether this is something that can be fixed at install time, or 
whether the README should be changed to make it clear that you need the 
prefix on the first stage of the process as well as the second.

Thanks Alan and Jon.  This seems to be hitting some people so
here is what I plan to push out.

-- >8 -- cut here -- >8 --
Subject: Update INSTALL

Explicitly mention how to install by hand in build-as-user and
install-as-root steps.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <redacted>

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 INSTALL |    9 ++++++---
 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

applies-to: 132cf7a143b9ed08e69399da6caa0c627d26f181
c44922a7817398d63bb2b46dc599bd05c710e746

diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index bbb13f3..06b11e1 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL

@@ -5,10 +5,13 @@ Normally you can just do "make" followed
 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
+	$ make prefix=/usr ;# as yourself
+	# make prefix=/usr install ;# as root
 
-(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:
 

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