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authorJunio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>2005-11-09 21:09:43 -0800
committerJunio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>2005-11-09 21:09:43 -0800
commit23ea3e201cea0deea909569e08e950a9ec2345f7 (patch)
tree614520079f232d1459467b6e718182a8721aadd5 /INSTALL
parent5ca15b8af7f018b9ae9da30130f9dcd1a896e0b3 (diff)
parenta1c292958f9968565f4048a17196d99fd16fc7ca (diff)
downloadgit-0.99.9g.tar.xz
GIT 0.99.9gv0.99.9g
Another snapshot, as slow and steady marth towards 1.0 continues. Major changes include: - Jim Radford's RPM split. - Fredrik's recursive merge strategy is now default for two heads merge. - Yaacov's SVN importer updates. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
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diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index bbb13f3fd9..06b11e104c 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -5,10 +5,13 @@ 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
- make prefix=/usr install
+ $ make prefix=/usr ;# as yourself
+ # make prefix=/usr install ;# as root
-(or prefix=/usr/local, of course). Some day somebody may send me a RPM
-spec file or something, and you can do "make rpm" or whatever.
+(or prefix=/usr/local, of course). Just like any program suite
+that uses $prefix, the built results have some paths encoded,
+which are derived from $prefix, so "make all; make prefix=/usr
+install" would not work.
Issues of note: