Re: Help me with git

William Pursell pisze:
> Marcin Kłapkowski wrote:
>   
>> I have installed ratpoison from git.
>> used ~/git/ratpoison, and now git don't allow me to download it once
>> again, because folder is not empty.
>>     
>
> Do you mean that git clone is failing?
> You should only clone once.  After that,
> update with git pull.
>
>   
>> I want to install new version of ratpoison from git. Should I uninstall
>> existing ratpoison,
>> or can I install just like ./configure;make;make install, from fresh
>> code downloaded?
>> Sorry, I don't know. Please help me.
>>     
>
> The configure script is not in the git
> repository.  You must generate it.  You
> can do that either by running autogen.sh
> or simply run autoreconf.  Here are the
> commands you want:
>
> $ cd ~/git/ratpoison
> $ git pull
> $ autoreconf -iv
> $ mkdir ~/build/ratpoison
> $ cd ~/build/ratpoison
> $ ~/git/ratpoison/configure --prefix=$HOME
> $ make
> $ make install
>
>   
Works, but two thigs are there.
I had to 'make distclean' before configure.
Why you prefer to build to different directory? For me build to default 
dir works fine.

Anyway, thanks.