On Sep 20, 2010, at 10:40 AM, Matthieu Moy wrote: > Kevin Ballard <kevin@xxxxxx> writes: >> Andrew Keller <andrew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> >>> $ ./configure --prefix=/usr/users/students/ak4390/.local >>> $ make >>> $ make install >> >> 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. > > It does. I installed Git successfully without ever being root on > several machines. > > In my case, it was GNU/Linux machines, so something may go wrong > because of a non-gnu system. Did you try compiling with gmake instead > of make? Just did. There is no change in the result. A website also suggested disabling curl support, and defining INSTALL as /usr/ucb/install. No change. The install target is very insistent on installing into /usr/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/sun4-solaris-64int. ~ 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