From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthieu Moy Subject: Re: self contained executable Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2009 18:51:01 +0200 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Joel Saltzman X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Sep 16 18:51:18 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 1Mnxiv-0007Xs-Us for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Wed, 16 Sep 2009 18:51:18 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753973AbZIPQvH (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Sep 2009 12:51:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753882AbZIPQvF (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Sep 2009 12:51:05 -0400 Received: from mx2.imag.fr ([129.88.30.17]:47073 "EHLO rominette.imag.fr" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753093AbZIPQvF (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Sep 2009 12:51:05 -0400 Received: from mail-veri.imag.fr (mail-veri.imag.fr [129.88.43.52]) by rominette.imag.fr (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n8GGmCcV004696 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Wed, 16 Sep 2009 18:48:12 +0200 Received: from bauges.imag.fr ([129.88.43.5]) by mail-veri.imag.fr with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.50) id 1Mnxif-0002n9-Ex; Wed, 16 Sep 2009 18:51:01 +0200 Received: from moy by bauges.imag.fr with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Mnxif-0007QF-DW; Wed, 16 Sep 2009 18:51:01 +0200 In-Reply-To: (Joel Saltzman's message of "Wed\, 16 Sep 2009 00\:45\:12 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.2 (rominette.imag.fr [129.88.30.17]); Wed, 16 Sep 2009 18:48:13 +0200 (CEST) X-IMAG-MailScanner-Information: Please contact MI2S MIM for more information X-MailScanner-ID: n8GGmCcV004696 X-IMAG-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-IMAG-MailScanner-SpamCheck: X-IMAG-MailScanner-From: moy@imag.fr MailScanner-NULL-Check: 1253724494.27386@vRhEbp4DS8s4e9SbETmmlQ Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Joel Saltzman writes: > is it possible to compile git with all its dependencies so I can run > it on a server that does not have root access? Compiling with LDFLAGS='-static' is a first step, I'm not sure it's sufficient. But as Alex already pointed out, you don't have to be root to install Git anyway (I'm using a git that I compiled myself, without being root on my machine). -- Matthieu Moy http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/