Brandon Casey <brandon.casey.ctr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Craig Taylor wrote: >> Hi all >> >> I'm compiling/installing git in a Solaris environment without root. >> Using 'make DESTDIR=<some path> install' to stage an install to an >> alternate location. >> The perl module component of 'make DESTDIR=<some path> install' installs >> into the system perl lib path without prepending the forced install >> destination or my '--prefix'. >> This seems counter intuitive and I would consider a bug. > > Try 'make prefix=<some path>'. > > btw, this is in the first paragraph of the INSTALL document. But is that what Craig is trying to do? I think he wants to build git to be installed in /usr/bin/git or whatever, and he would say "prefix=/usr". He however wants "make install" to write into /var/tmp/g/usr/bin/git, not /usr/bin/git, so that he can for example make a tarball with "cd /var/tmp/g && tar cf ../git.tar .", and extract it as root under the real '/'. "make DESTDIR=/var/tmp/g" is exactly for that, and if it is not working I would say it is a bug. -- 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