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| -rw-r--r-- | INSTALL | 9 |
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@@ -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: |