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 all doc ;# as yourself
+ # make prefix=/usr install install-doc ;# 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:
If you don't have openssl, you can use one of the SHA1 libraries
that come with git (git includes the one from Mozilla, and has
- its own PowerPC-optimized one too - see the Makefile), and you
- can avoid the bignum support by excising git-rev-list support
- for "--merge-order" (by hand).
+ its own PowerPC and ARM optimized ones too - see the Makefile).
- "libcurl" and "curl" executable. git-http-fetch and
git-fetch use them. If you do not use http
transfer, you are probabaly OK if you do not have
them.
+ - expat library; git-http-push uses it for remote lock
+ management over DAV. Similar to "curl" above, this is optional.
+
- "GNU diff" to generate patches. Of course, you don't _have_ to
generate patches if you don't want to, but let's face it, you'll
be wanting to. Or why did you get git in the first place?
history graphically
- "ssh" is used to push and pull over the net
+
+ - "perl" and POSIX-compliant shells are needed to use most of
+ the barebone Porcelainish scripts.
+
+ - "python" 2.3 or more recent; if you have 2.3, you may need
+ to build with "make WITH_OWN_SUBPROCESS_PY=YesPlease".
+
+ - Some platform specific issues are dealt with Makefile rules,
+ but depending on your specific installation, you may not
+ have all the libraries/tools needed, or you may have
+ necessary libraries at unusual locations. Please look at the
+ top of the Makefile to see what can be adjusted for your needs.
+ You can place local settings in config.mak and the Makefile
+ will include them. Note that config.mak is not distributed;
+ the name is reserved for local settings.
+
+ - To build and install documentation suite, you need to have the
+ asciidoc/xmlto toolchain. Alternatively, pre-formatted
+ documentation are available in "html" and "man" branches of the git
+ repository itself. For example, you could:
+
+ $ mkdir manual && cd manual
+ $ git init-db
+ $ git clone-pack git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git man html |
+ while read a b
+ do
+ echo $a >.git/$b
+ done
+ $ cp .git/refs/heads/man .git/refs/heads/master
+ $ git checkout
+
+ to checkout the pre-built man pages. Also in this repository:
+
+ $ git checkout html
+
+ would instead give you a copy of what you see at:
+
+ http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/
+