Jorma Karvonen wrote: > Johannes Schindelin wrote: >> since you do have a recent snapshot, why not try ./configure, as Pasky >> suggested? >> >> BTW I cannot read Finnish, but it probably says that you do not have curl >> installed. configure would detect that, and automatically set NO_CURL=1. > > Sorry, > > but I have not any git installed and there is no configure file in > installing directory. It was the first thing I checked after extracting > the git-snapshot-20060831.bz2 file. The INSTALL file does not mention > the ./configure command, either. >From INSTALL file, 'maint' branch: 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 $ ./configure --prefix=/usr ;# as yourself $ make all doc ;# as yourself # make install install-doc ;# as root >From INSTALL file, 'next' and 'master' branches (here since 2006-08-08): 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 > When I tested > > make NEEDS_LIBICONV=1 NO_CURL=1 > > the make succeeded but when trying make install I got error messages > shown in the enclosed file. Try then $ NEEDS_LIBICONV=YesPlease NO_CURL=YesPlease make -- Jakub Narebski Warsaw, Poland ShadeHawk on #git - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html