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From: merlyn@stonehenge•com (Randal L. Schwartz)
To: Andrew Keller <andrew@kellerfarm•com>
Cc: Git List <git@vger•kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Reduced privileges install
Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2010 18:07:30 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <86k4mhfcj1.fsf@red.stonehenge.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <325786BC-5F54-47B5-AEF5-7FDAD9BEA4BA@kellerfarm.com> (Andrew Keller's message of "Sun, 19 Sep 2010 19:50:59 -0400")

>>>>> "Andrew" == Andrew Keller <andrew@kellerfarm•com> writes:

Andrew> Because I do not own the server and my account has restricted
Andrew> privileges, I attempted to augment my PATH to include a
Andrew> directory in my home folder, and then install git in there by
Andrew> specifying a prefix at the configure stage.  The configure and
Andrew> the make work, but the make install fails.  Here's the last
Andrew> section of the log:

What's your PREFIX set to?  If you set your prefix, the Perl modules are
installed below the prefix, not in the system dirs.

Andrew> $ make install

Yeah, I don't see a prefix here, unless you set it in your Makefile.

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  reply	other threads:[~2010-09-20  1:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-09-19 23:50 Reduced privileges install Andrew Keller
2010-09-20  1:07 ` Randal L. Schwartz [this message]
2010-09-20  1:31   ` Andrew Keller
2010-09-20  6:51     ` Kevin Ballard
2010-09-20 14:06       ` Andrew Keller
2010-09-20 14:40       ` Matthieu Moy
2010-09-20 14:52         ` Randal L. Schwartz
2010-09-20 15:48         ` Andrew Keller
2010-09-20 14:53 ` Brandon Casey
2010-09-20 16:56   ` Andrew Keller
2010-09-20 17:01     ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-09-20 20:28       ` Andrew Keller
2010-09-20 19:12     ` Brandon Casey
2010-09-20 19:18       ` Brandon Casey
2010-09-20 20:39         ` Andrew Keller
2010-09-20 22:53       ` Andrew Keller
2010-09-20 23:20         ` Brandon Casey

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