Re: [PATCH] Add more instructions about how to install git.

Thiago Farina [off-list ref] writes:

Running only "make".
$ make

[...]

Running configure and then make
$ make configure
GIT_VERSION = 1.6.5.rc0.dirty
    GEN configure
$ make

[...]

What about trying to do what the INSTALL file suggests, then?

| 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

You did the first line, but the three next one give you instructions
that you didn't follow. These instructions start line 16 of the
INSTALL file, that is, in the first screen when viewing the file with
a reasonable window size.

I tend to disagree with the mainainer that the configure should be the
"alternate" and plain make the recommanded way, but the configure
script is there, it works, it's documented early enough in the INSTALL
file, so what's the problem?

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Matthieu Moy
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