Comments on: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to an Ioke Dev Env From Source (part 1: Git)

By: Martin

Martin — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 15:02:03 +0000

The good thing with installing into ~/opt/ in dedicated directories for each piece of software is that we can just delete the complete directory from there – no need to do anything else as the normal environment isn’t affected.

For instance, to remove Git, just do:

$ rm -rf ~/opt/git-1.6.1 ~/bin/git

And if you also want to remove the source we used:

$ rm -rf ~/work/git-1.6.1

That’s it!

Kindly,

By: slavof

slavof — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 14:58:19 +0000

Thanks, Martin!

OK. That works fine!

I am looking forward to next part.

btw, I don’t know if it a good idea, but it would be very nice to have also “remove” script/procedure, that clean things up from HOME dir and from other places where we put something that we install manually (i.e. not by apt-get/aptitude).

thanks again,
Slavo.

By: Martin

Martin — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 14:03:39 +0000

Oops! A small mistake there. The command you should run to install Git should be:

make prefix=~/opt/git-1.6.1 install install-doc install-html install-info

Not “sudo make prefix=/usr install install-doc install-html install-info”.

The “make” and “make install” must use the same prefix, otherwise some of the Git commands will get confused, since they won’t be able to find themselves or necessary data.

Hope that helps.

Kindly,

By: slavof

slavof — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 13:49:03 +0000

Hi!

Great write up. Thank you very much for this. I am a little new to linux and git, so I have a question.

I tried your steps, everything went ok (I assume that C-compiler warning about various file handling related functions like “ignoring return value of ‘ftruncate’, declared with attribute warn_unused_result” are ok), but install step (”sudo make prefix=/usr install install-doc install-html install-info”) ends with:

===
if test -r /usr/share/info/dir; then \
install-info –info-dir=/usr/share/info git.info ;\
install-info –info-dir=/usr/share/info gitman.info ;\
else \
echo “No directory found in /usr/share/info” >&2 ; \
fi

No `START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY’ and no `This file documents’.
install-info(git.info): unable to determine description for `dir’ entry – giving up

No `START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY’ and no `This file documents’.
install-info(gitman.info): unable to determine description for `dir’ entry – giving up
make[1]: *** [install-info] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/slavof/gitcore/git-1.6.1/Documentation’
make: *** [install-info] Error 2

===

after this it looks like that git 1.6. works normally.

Is everything ok? Do you know what caused error described above?

I tried this on fresh installation of Ubuntu 8.10.

thanks is advance,
Slavo.

By: Martin

Martin — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 10:28:27 +0000

Glad to be of service. The next part, covering Emacs install, is almost ready…!

Kindly,

/Also Martin

By: Martin

Martin — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 10:25:28 +0000

Awesome! I’ve been having a look at Ioke lately (really like it!) and wanted to set up a development environment for Ubuntu. I have to admit that my Linux skills are pretty much non-existent so I failed miserably so far. So thanks a lot and can’t wait for part 2… want to get started finally ;)

Martin

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