From: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
To: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Cc: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>,
Thiago Farina <tfransosi@gmail.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add more instructions about how to install git.
Date: Tue, 08 Sep 2009 09:56:49 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AA60E41.5050702@drmicha.warpmail.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <vpqhbvekldk.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>
Matthieu Moy venit, vidit, dixit 08.09.2009 08:20:
> Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 07:11, Thiago Farina<tfransosi@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 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
>
> Your commit message doesn't say what's wrong with
>
> | Alternatively you can use autoconf generated ./configure script to
> | set up install paths (via config.mak.autogen), so you can write
> | instead
> |
> | $ make configure ;# as yourself
> | $ ./configure --prefix=/usr ;# as yourself
> | $ make all doc ;# as yourself
> | # make install install-doc install-html;# as root
>
> which is already in INSTALL a few lines after what your patch adds.
... especially since that really is a second class alternative these
days, with using the shipped Makefile being the preferred way - just as
the current documentation states.
>
>>> +If you don't have autoconf installed, you can do this by:
>>> +$ sudo apt-get install autoconf
>>
>> ... if you're on a Debian-derived system.
>
> and if you have sudo configured.
>
> BTW, apt-get is anyway somehow deprecaded, you should
> s/apt-get/aptitude/.
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-08 7:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-08 5:11 [PATCH] Add more instructions about how to install git Thiago Farina
2009-09-08 5:44 ` Alex Riesen
2009-09-08 6:20 ` Matthieu Moy
2009-09-08 7:56 ` Michael J Gruber [this message]
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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