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From: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
To: Thiago Farina <tfransosi@gmail.com>
Cc: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr>,
	Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add more instructions about how to install git.
Date: Tue, 08 Sep 2009 16:38:12 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AA66C54.4060101@viscovery.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a4c8a6d00909080724q1c792f6bs641ea9d000d08b5a@mail.gmail.com>

Thiago Farina schrieb:
> I tried to being more explicit about what the new users has to do. The
> first instruction that the text says is: "Normaly you can just do
> "make"".
> But the new user, cloning git won't have a configure file, so he can't
> just do "make".
> 
> And then, the text says: "so you can write instead". This brings me to
> one alternative (not what I really should do), when in fact it should
> be (I guess) the first instructions that new users need to follow.

Then guessed wrong. You really only have to say "make". The use of
autoconf and ./configure is purely optional and not necessary.

-- Hannes

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-09-08 14:38 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
2009-09-08 14:24     ` Thiago Farina
2009-09-08 14:37       ` Erik Faye-Lund
2009-09-08 14:38       ` Johannes Sixt [this message]
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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