From c44922a7817398d63bb2b46dc599bd05c710e746 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Junio C Hamano Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2005 12:40:03 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] Update INSTALL Explicitly mention how to install by hand in build-as-user and install-as-root steps. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- INSTALL | 9 ++++++--- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index bbb13f3fd9..06b11e104c 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -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: -- 2.11.4.GIT