Eugene Sajine <euguess@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 12:45 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Just a wild guess. perhaps you specified prefix=/usr/local/git-1.7.4.1/ >> eons ago when you built and installed 1.7.4.1 like this: >> >> make prefix=/usr/local/git-1.7.4.1 all install >> >> and then you did it differently when you installed 1.7.6.4, e.g. >> >> make all >> make prefix=/usr/local/git-1.7.6.4 install >> >> > > > Are you saying that the first command is more correct? > I will check it. At build time, Git registers the "exec path" (i.e. where to find git-<command> executables). So, if you run "make all" without specifying the install path, Git will set an arbitrary exec-path, and the installation won't work. -- Matthieu Moy http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/ -- 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