On Sep 19, 2010, at 9:07 PM, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
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> "Andrew" == Andrew Keller <andrew@kellerfarm.com> writes:
> 
>> Because I do not own the server and my account has restricted privileges, I attempted to augment my PATH to include a directory in my home folder, and then install git in there by specifying a prefix at the configure stage.  The configure and the make work, but the make install fails.  Here's the last section of the log:
> 
> What's your PREFIX set to?  If you set your prefix, the Perl modules are installed below the prefix, not in the system dirs.


Here's what I executed:

$ ./configure --prefix=/usr/users/students/ak4390/.local
$ make
$ make install

I also tried providing the --oldincludedir and --datadir parameters, but I got the same result.

~ Andrew Keller

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