From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2005 20:40:03 +0000 (-0800)
Subject: Update INSTALL
X-Git-Tag: v0.99.9g^2~5
X-Git-Url: https://git.verplant.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=c44922a7817398d63bb2b46dc599bd05c710e746;p=git.git

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>
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diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index bbb13f3f..06b11e10 100644
--- 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
 
-	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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