1 2 Git installation 3 4Normally you can just do "make" followed by "make install", and that 5will install the git programs in your own ~/bin/ directory. If you want 6to do a global install, you can do 7 8 $ make prefix=/usr all doc info ;# as yourself 9 # make prefix=/usr install install-doc install-html install-info ;# as root 10 11(or prefix=/usr/local, of course). Just like any program suite 12that uses $prefix, the built results have some paths encoded, 13which are derived from $prefix, so "make all; make prefix=/usr 14install" would not work. 15 16The beginning of the Makefile documents many variables that affect the way 17git is built. You can override them either from the command line, or in a 18config.mak file. 19 20Alternatively you can use autoconf generated ./configure script to 21set up install paths (via config.mak.autogen), so you can write instead 22 23 $ make configure ;# as yourself 24 $ ./configure --prefix=/usr ;# as yourself 25 $ make all doc ;# as yourself 26 # make install install-doc install-html;# as root 27 28If you're willing to trade off (much) longer build time for a later 29faster git you can also do a profile feedback build with 30 31 $ make prefix=/usr PROFILE=BUILD all 32 # make prefix=/usr PROFILE=BUILD install 33 34This will run the complete test suite as training workload and then 35rebuild git with the generated profile feedback. This results in a git 36which is a few percent faster on CPU intensive workloads. This 37may be a good tradeoff for distribution packagers. 38 39Or if you just want to install a profile-optimized version of git into 40your home directory, you could run: 41 42 $ make PROFILE=BUILD install 43 44As a caveat: a profile-optimized build takes a *lot* longer since the 45git tree must be built twice, and in order for the profiling 46measurements to work properly, ccache must be disabled and the test 47suite has to be run using only a single CPU. In addition, the profile 48feedback build stage currently generates a lot of additional compiler 49warnings. 50 51Issues of note: 52 53 - Ancient versions of GNU Interactive Tools (pre-4.9.2) installed a 54 program "git", whose name conflicts with this program. But with 55 version 4.9.2, after long hiatus without active maintenance (since 56 around 1997), it changed its name to gnuit and the name conflict is no 57 longer a problem. 58 59 NOTE: When compiled with backward compatibility option, the GNU 60 Interactive Tools package still can install "git", but you can build it 61 with --disable-transition option to avoid this. 62 63 - You can use git after building but without installing if you want 64 to test drive it. Simply run git found in bin-wrappers directory 65 in the build directory, or prepend that directory to your $PATH. 66 This however is less efficient than running an installed git, as 67 you always need an extra fork+exec to run any git subcommand. 68 69 It is still possible to use git without installing by setting a few 70 environment variables, which was the way this was done 71 traditionally. But using git found in bin-wrappers directory in 72 the build directory is far simpler. As a historical reference, the 73 old way went like this: 74 75 GIT_EXEC_PATH=`pwd` 76 PATH=`pwd`:$PATH 77 GITPERLLIB=`pwd`/perl/blib/lib 78 export GIT_EXEC_PATH PATH GITPERLLIB 79 80 - Git is reasonably self-sufficient, but does depend on a few external 81 programs and libraries. Git can be used without most of them by adding 82 the approriate "NO_<LIBRARY>=YesPlease" to the make command line or 83 config.mak file. 84 85 - "zlib", the compression library. Git won't build without it. 86 87 - "ssh" is used to push and pull over the net. 88 89 - A POSIX-compliant shell is required to run many scripts needed 90 for everyday use (e.g. "bisect", "pull"). 91 92 - "Perl" version 5.8 or later is needed to use some of the 93 features (e.g. preparing a partial commit using "git add -i/-p", 94 interacting with svn repositories with "git svn"). If you can 95 live without these, use NO_PERL. Note that recent releases of 96 Redhat/Fedora are reported to ship Perl binary package with some 97 core modules stripped away (see http://lwn.net/Articles/477234/), 98 so you might need to install additional packages other than Perl 99 itself, e.g. Time::HiRes. 100 101 - "openssl" library is used by git-imap-send to use IMAP over SSL. 102 If you don't need it, use NO_OPENSSL. 103 104 By default, git uses OpenSSL for SHA1 but it will use it's own 105 library (inspired by Mozilla's) with either NO_OPENSSL or 106 BLK_SHA1. Also included is a version optimized for PowerPC 107 (PPC_SHA1). 108 109 - "libcurl" library is used by git-http-fetch and git-fetch. You 110 might also want the "curl" executable for debugging purposes. 111 If you do not use http:// or https:// repositories, you do not 112 have to have them (use NO_CURL). 113 114 - "expat" library; git-http-push uses it for remote lock 115 management over DAV. Similar to "curl" above, this is optional 116 (with NO_EXPAT). 117 118 - "wish", the Tcl/Tk windowing shell is used in gitk to show the 119 history graphically, and in git-gui. If you don't want gitk or 120 git-gui, you can use NO_TCLTK. 121 122 - A gettext library is used by default for localizing Git. The 123 primary target is GNU libintl, but the Solaris gettext 124 implementation also works. 125 126 We need a gettext.h on the system for C code, gettext.sh (or 127 Solaris gettext(1)) for shell scripts, and libintl-perl for Perl 128 programs. 129 130 Set NO_GETTEXT to disable localization support and make Git only 131 use English. Under autoconf the configure script will do this 132 automatically if it can't find libintl on the system. 133 134 - Python version 2.6 or later is needed to use the git-p4 135 interface to Perforce. 136 137 - Some platform specific issues are dealt with Makefile rules, 138 but depending on your specific installation, you may not 139 have all the libraries/tools needed, or you may have 140 necessary libraries at unusual locations. Please look at the 141 top of the Makefile to see what can be adjusted for your needs. 142 You can place local settings in config.mak and the Makefile 143 will include them. Note that config.mak is not distributed; 144 the name is reserved for local settings. 145 146 - To build and install documentation suite, you need to have 147 the asciidoc/xmlto toolchain. Because not many people are 148 inclined to install the tools, the default build target 149 ("make all") does _not_ build them. 150 151 "make doc" builds documentation in man and html formats; there are 152 also "make man", "make html" and "make info". Note that "make html" 153 requires asciidoc, but not xmlto. "make man" (and thus make doc) 154 requires both. 155 156 "make install-doc" installs documentation in man format only; there 157 are also "make install-man", "make install-html" and "make 158 install-info". 159 160 Building and installing the info file additionally requires 161 makeinfo and docbook2X. Version 0.8.3 is known to work. 162 163 Building and installing the pdf file additionally requires 164 dblatex. Version >= 0.2.7 is known to work. 165 166 All formats require at least asciidoc 8.4.1. 167 168 There are also "make quick-install-doc", "make quick-install-man" 169 and "make quick-install-html" which install preformatted man pages 170 and html documentation. To use these build targets, you need to 171 clone two separate git-htmldocs and git-manpages repositories next 172 to the clone of git itself. 173 174 It has been reported that docbook-xsl version 1.72 and 1.73 are 175 buggy; 1.72 misformats manual pages for callouts, and 1.73 needs 176 the patch in contrib/patches/docbook-xsl-manpages-charmap.patch 177 178 Users attempting to build the documentation on Cygwin may need to ensure 179 that the /etc/xml/catalog file looks something like this: 180 181 <?xml version="1.0"?> 182 <!DOCTYPE catalog PUBLIC 183 "-//OASIS//DTD Entity Resolution XML Catalog V1.0//EN" 184 "http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/entity/release/1.0/catalog.dtd" 185 > 186 <catalog xmlns="urn:oasis:names:tc:entity:xmlns:xml:catalog"> 187 <rewriteURI 188 uriStartString = "http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current" 189 rewritePrefix = "/usr/share/sgml/docbook/xsl-stylesheets" 190 /> 191 <rewriteURI 192 uriStartString="http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5" 193 rewritePrefix="/usr/share/sgml/docbook/xml-dtd-4.5" 194 /> 195 </catalog> 196 197 This can be achieved with the following two xmlcatalog commands: 198 199 xmlcatalog --noout \ 200 --add rewriteURI \ 201 http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current \ 202 /usr/share/sgml/docbook/xsl-stylesheets \ 203 /etc/xml/catalog 204 205 xmlcatalog --noout \ 206 --add rewriteURI \ 207 http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/xsl/current \ 208 /usr/share/sgml/docbook/xml-dtd-4.5 \ 209 /etc/xml/catalog