On Nov 11, 2007, at 5:49 PM, Brian Gernhardt wrote:
Git has a very clever Makefile. Sometimes its a little overly clever.1) I use stow to manage my /usr/local directory. With many other programs I am able to build with a prefix of /usr/local and install with a prefix of /usr/local/stow/$program. Git detects a change in the build variables and recompiles pretty much everything.2) If I remove the old copy of git before installing the new, git will notice this and again start a (smaller) recompile because the GIT-VERSION-FILE file changes from something detailed like "1.5.3.5.622.g6fd7a" to "1.5.3.GIT".Is there a way to tell git to be a bit less clever and just install the already compiled program? If not, would changing the Makefile to read something like the following be accepted?----- 8< ----- install: all install-dumb install-dumb: # No rebuild! # Current install process ----- 8< -----
I also stow git (which doesn't come with a make uninstall grrrrrr) and what I do is that I dropped the dependency of `install' on `all'. Also, I always install the new version before removing (stow - D) the previous one.
Cheers, -- Benoit Sigoure aka Tsuna EPITA Research and Development Laboratory
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