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From: Thiago Farina <tfransosi@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Thiago Farina <tfransosi@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH] Add more instructions about how to install git.
Date: Tue,  8 Sep 2009 01:11:26 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1252386686-15689-1-git-send-email-tfransosi@gmail.com> (raw)

Signed-off-by: Thiago Farina <tfransosi@gmail.com>
---
 INSTALL |    9 +++++++++
 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index ae7f750..67abfc7 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -1,6 +1,15 @@
 
 		Git installation
 
+To install git follow these 4 steps inside your git directory:
+$ autoconf      # Generates the configure file from configure.ac
+$ ./configure   # Configures everything needed to build git
+$ make all      # Compiles git based in the Makefile
+$ make install  # Installs git in your own ~/bin directory
+
+If you don't have autoconf installed, you can do this by:
+$ sudo apt-get install autoconf
+
 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
-- 
1.6.0.4

             reply	other threads:[~2009-09-08  5:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-08  5:11 Thiago Farina [this message]
2009-09-08  5:44 ` [PATCH] Add more instructions about how to install git Alex Riesen
2009-09-08  6:20   ` Matthieu Moy
2009-09-08  7:56     ` Michael J Gruber
2009-09-08 14:24     ` Thiago Farina
2009-09-08 14:37       ` Erik Faye-Lund
2009-09-08 14:38       ` Johannes Sixt
2009-09-08 14:52         ` Thiago Farina
2009-09-08 14:56           ` Mikael Magnusson
2009-09-08 15:19           ` Brian Gernhardt
2009-09-08 19:41           ` Matthieu Moy

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