Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote: > Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net> writes: > > > Hint: build git with: make 'prefix=~' > > Sorry, I do not see why you would want to do this. I understand > "make prefix=~" or "make prefix=$HOME", but "make prefix='~'" > and expanding tilde and friends at runtime you need to justify > why it helps in which situation. > > We are not DOS and do not do argument expansion shell should > have done for us ourselves. My home directories have different names on different machines I'm on, and I want to avoid having to recompile git for each one. I don't have root access to some of them, so installing globally in /usr or /usr/local isn't an option, either. -- Eric Wong - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.htmlReceived on Sun Dec 25 06:51:09 2005
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