On Nov 11, 2007, at 11:49 AM, Brian Gernhardt wrote:
Git has a very clever Makefile. Sometimes its a little overly clever.
I found a way around the Makefile cleverness. It's ugly, but it
requires no changes to the existing Makefile. I'm posting it in case
anyone finds this thread trying to do what I'm doing. My nieve
suggestion fails, BTW, because git-gui's Makefile does the same
cleverness.
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# Install ignoring version changes, etc.
ignore="-o GIT-VERSION-FILE -o GIT-CFLAGS -o GIT-GUI-VARS"
install="$ignore prefix=/usr/local/stow/git"
gitgui="$install gitexecdir=/usr/local/bin"
sudo make $install NO_TCLTK=Yes install install-doc
sudo make $gitgui -C git-gui install
----- 8< -----
Why do I have to go through so many hoops just to install what I've
already compiled?
~~ Brian
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