From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johannes Sixt Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add more instructions about how to install git. Date: Tue, 08 Sep 2009 16:38:12 +0200 Message-ID: <4AA66C54.4060101@viscovery.net> References: <1252386686-15689-1-git-send-email-tfransosi@gmail.com> <81b0412b0909072244k21a4ddf6vdc38d9f713a4a084@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Matthieu Moy , Alex Riesen , git@vger.kernel.org To: Thiago Farina X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Sep 08 16:38:28 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Ml1py-00061z-Sl for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Tue, 08 Sep 2009 16:38:27 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750985AbZIHOiN (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Sep 2009 10:38:13 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750843AbZIHOiN (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Sep 2009 10:38:13 -0400 Received: from lilzmailso01.liwest.at ([212.33.55.23]:34213 "EHLO lilzmailso01.liwest.at" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750774AbZIHOiM (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Sep 2009 10:38:12 -0400 Received: from cpe228-254.liwest.at ([81.10.228.254] helo=linz.eudaptics.com) by lilzmailso01.liwest.at with esmtpa (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ml1pk-0004Gp-Mf; Tue, 08 Sep 2009 16:38:12 +0200 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (J6T.linz.viscovery [192.168.1.95]) by linz.eudaptics.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76A429F88; Tue, 8 Sep 2009 16:38:12 +0200 (CEST) User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (Windows/20090302) In-Reply-To: X-Spam-Score: -1.4 (-) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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