From: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag•fr>
To: Lars Sadau <lars@sadau-online•de>
Cc: git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: BUG?? INSTALL MAKEFILE
Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2009 15:56:39 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <vpqiqosa3fc.fsf@bauges.imag.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49635BF8.1010700@sadau-online.de> (Lars Sadau's message of "Tue\, 06 Jan 2009 14\:26\:16 +0100")
Lars Sadau <lars@sadau-online•de> writes:
> Hallo,
>
> i'm a brand-new git user. Just one minute ago I wanted to install git in
> my home directory. The INSTALL file says type simply "make install", but
> the makefile does a global installation.
I was going to write:
Either run ./configure --prefix=$HOME/wherever/you/want or edit the
prefix variable in config.mak.
but then realized that prefix is set to $(HOME) by default. Are you
sure you didn't edit the Makefile or run any sort of ./configure
before "make install" ?
--
Matthieu
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-06 15:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-06 13:26 BUG?? INSTALL MAKEFILE Lars Sadau
2009-01-06 14:56 ` Matthieu Moy [this message]
2009-01-06 15:22 ` Mike Ralphson
2009-01-06 16:26 ` Ted Pavlic
2009-01-06 17:17 ` Matthieu Moy
2009-01-07 10:44 ` Lars Sadau
2009-01-06 17:24 ` Daniel Barkalow
2009-01-06 19:44 ` Ted Pavlic
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