which are derived from $prefix, so "make all; make prefix=/usr
install" would not work.
+Alternatively you can use autoconf generated ./configure script to
+set up install paths (via config.mak.autogen), so you can write instead
+
+ $ make configure ;# as yourself
+ $ ./configure --prefix=/usr ;# as yourself
+ $ make all doc ;# as yourself
+ # make install install-doc ;# as root
+
+
Issues of note:
- git normally installs a helper script wrapper called "git", which
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:
- "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
+ transfer, you are probably 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?
-
- Non-GNU versions of the diff/patch programs don't generally support
- the unified patch format (which is the one git uses), so you
- really do want to get the GNU one. Trust me, you will want to
- do that even if it wasn't for git. There's no point in living
- in the dark ages any more.
-
- - "merge", the standard UNIX three-way merge program. It usually
- comes with the "rcs" package on most Linux distributions, so if
- you have a developer install you probably have it already, but a
- "graphical user desktop" install might have left it out.
-
- You'll only need the merge program if you do development using
- git, and if you only use git to track other peoples work you'll
- never notice the lack of it.
-
- - "wish", the TCL/Tk windowing shell is used in gitk to show the
+ - "wish", the Tcl/Tk windowing shell is used in gitk to show the
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
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 |
+ $ git init
+ $ git fetch-pack git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git man html |
while read a b
do
echo $a >.git/$b