Update INSTALL

Explicitly mention how to install by hand in build-as-user and
install-as-root steps.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>

diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index bbb13f3fd98f96af5521226a8cdaf74f8c6732a2..06b11e104c930202be4002f0b98a421c73beedff 100644 (file)
--- 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
 
 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.

 
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