On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 1:01 PM, Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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/ > Matthieu/Junio, Thank you very much for your help - there was a mistake made during the build where the exec path folder was incorrect and unreachable. Thanks! -- 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