Junio C Hamano wrote: > 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. Ah. I did not realize that that is what DESTDIR is for. Thanks for the correction. -brandon -- 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