On Sep 19, 2010, at 9:07 PM, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: > "Andrew" == Andrew Keller <andrew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> Because I do not own the server and my account has restricted privileges, I attempted to augment my PATH to include a directory in my home folder, and then install git in there by specifying a prefix at the configure stage. The configure and the make work, but the make install fails. Here's the last section of the log: > > What's your PREFIX set to? If you set your prefix, the Perl modules are installed below the prefix, not in the system dirs. Here's what I executed: $ ./configure --prefix=/usr/users/students/ak4390/.local $ make $ make install I also tried providing the --oldincludedir and --datadir parameters, but I got the same result. ~ Andrew Keller -- 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