From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thiago Farina Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add more instructions about how to install git. Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2009 11:24:37 -0300 Message-ID: References: <1252386686-15689-1-git-send-email-tfransosi@gmail.com> <81b0412b0909072244k21a4ddf6vdc38d9f713a4a084@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Alex Riesen , git@vger.kernel.org To: Matthieu Moy X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Sep 08 16:32:08 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Ml1jq-0003JP-2K for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Tue, 08 Sep 2009 16:32:06 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750940AbZIHObz convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Sep 2009 10:31:55 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750869AbZIHOby (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Sep 2009 10:31:54 -0400 Received: from mail-yx0-f194.google.com ([209.85.210.194]:61664 "EHLO mail-yx0-f194.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750729AbZIHOby convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Sep 2009 10:31:54 -0400 Received: by yxe32 with SMTP id 32so5905713yxe.23 for ; Tue, 08 Sep 2009 07:31:56 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=GJSJ5heupuvCGrdkcFUXNsJbfecXWyTBfIkFdiENxI0=; b=Wx63E0eW9gr4OaLbvp0olylRnpOztF2n/FLLxOclU++0WjAiIQW1gLn9JHTvGhVhGc wyDOgGdFE5+dY6fPznBoVMtUwzcy19hdDM/DJeX15acFSD63ai/w5KyBNDb2QsSE52w8 4KW5XfGGZ1jqbvM+SbiL/hrOE9k0Xfvc1bF08= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=UFruik2EA7TOu41muww5j6reA5kJMEYn3mYyM6BPOzc3PkWmFyuRBftwkQUH2iR3MG 4E3MOuTRiaNPpNs0jWmg04E70AX4ZSiXvNGf/MK+iH57c8V4kmV9outPWbye1TvTx0cx hdKqkxlpphUtXXM1mPRTXgBthDzjNJO1Z2auI= Received: by 10.100.60.1 with SMTP id i1mr16985897ana.11.1252419877858; Tue, 08 Sep 2009 07:24:37 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 3:20 AM, Matthieu Moy wrote: > Your commit message doesn't say what's wrong with > > | Alternatively you can use autoconf generated ./configure script to > | set up install paths (via config.mak.autogen), so you can write > | instead > | > | =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 $ make configure ;# as yourself > | =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 $ ./configure --prefix=3D/usr ;# as yourself > | =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 $ make all doc ;# as yourself > | =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 # make install install-doc install-html;# as root > > which is already in INSTALL a few lines after what your patch adds. I tried to being more explicit about what the new users has to do. The first instruction that the text says is: "Normaly you can just do "make"". But the new user, cloning git won't have a configure file, so he can't just do "make". And then, the text says: "so you can write instead". This brings me to one alternative (not what I really should do), when in fact it should be (I guess) the first instructions that new users need to follow.