On Sep 19, 2010, at 6:31 PM, Andrew Keller wrote: > 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. I admit, I'm not well-versed on the build system, but my impression was that specifying --prefix in ./configure was indeed supposed to propagate to a subsequent make and make install. However, you may wish to attempt the following to be sure: $ make PREFIX=/usr/users/students/ak4390/.local $ make install PREFIX=/usr/users/students/ak4390/.local -Kevin Ballard-- 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