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| author | Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> | 2005-11-09 12:40:03 -0800 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> | 2005-11-09 12:40:03 -0800 |
| commit | c44922a7817398d63bb2b46dc599bd05c710e746 (patch) | |
| tree | dd56b9928a63d6fd62ad2df3fbdeda0d032dadf6 /INSTALL | |
| parent | 186f855fc639f2063e5f02abc75ca39464a35500 (diff) | |
| download | git-c44922a7817398d63bb2b46dc599bd05c710e746.tar.gz git-c44922a7817398d63bb2b46dc599bd05c710e746.tar.xz | |
Update INSTALL
Explicitly mention how to install by hand in build-as-user and
install-as-root steps.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'INSTALL')
| -rw-r--r-- | INSTALL | 9 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions
@@ -5,10 +5,13 @@ Normally you can just do "make" followed by "make install", and that 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: |