I downloaded git source from https://github.com/git/git as a zip file.
I extracted it into /home/Desktop/denis/git (using Ubuntu).
Now the tutorial here says that I should run
./configure --prefix=/home/denis/git-static CFLAGS="${CFLAGS} -static"
from the above mentioned folder as a step for building git.
But the git source does not appear to have a configure file in it's root folder which I can run (only configure.ac, which I suspect is not what I'm looking for).
What am I missing here? How to build git manually?
I'm doing this because I'm trying to get git working on a shared hosting server where I'm not able to install git.
Read the INSTALL file in the root folder of the unzipped file, it seems there is some useful instruction in it, what I suspect:
Alternatively you can use autoconf generated ./configure script to
set up install paths (via config.mak.autogen), so you can write instead
$ make configure ;# as yourself
$ ./configure --prefix=/usr ;# as yourself
$ make all doc ;# as yourself
# make install install-doc install-html;# as root
or just simply:
$ make prefix=/usr all doc info ;# as yourself
# make prefix=/usr install install-doc install-html install-info ;# as root
The other answers did not work for me. Perhaps they will for others. What did work for me was:
- Get the source code
- Make a target directory
- Enter the source directory
- Configure
- Build
- Install
Use the following commands:
git clone git@github.com:git/git.git
mkdir git-static
cd git
./configure prefix=/path/to/git-static/ CFLAGS="${CFLAGS} -static"
make
make install
This will leave you with a few folders in the git-static directory, but the executable is statically linked. It is also substantially bigger than usual (maybe 1.5 MB bigger).
