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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next prev parent 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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