Alternatively you can use autoconf generated ./configure script to
set up install paths (via config.mak.autogen), so you can write instead
- $ autoconf ;# as yourself if ./configure doesn't exist yet
+ $ make configure ;# as yourself
$ ./configure --prefix=/usr ;# as yourself
$ make all doc ;# as yourself
# make install install-doc ;# as root
has been actively developed since 1997, and people have moved over to
graphical file managers.
+ - You can use git after building but without installing if you
+ wanted to. Various git commands need to find other git
+ commands and scripts to do their work, so you would need to
+ arrange a few environment variables to tell them that their
+ friends will be found in your built source area instead of at
+ their standard installation area. Something like this works
+ for me:
+
+ GIT_EXEC_PATH=`pwd`
+ PATH=`pwd`:$PATH
+ GITPERLLIB=`pwd`/perl/blib/lib
+ export GIT_EXEC_PATH PATH GITPERLLIB
+
- Git is reasonably self-sufficient, but does depend on a few external
programs and libraries:
- "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