Re: [PATCH] INSTALL: Add docs on how to use custom Python paths.

2015-08-31 Thread Junio C Hamano
Ehsan Akhgari  writes:

> Signed-off-by: Ehsan Akhgari 
> ---
>  INSTALL | 5 +
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
> index ffb071e..5b7fe91 100644
> --- a/INSTALL
> +++ b/INSTALL
> @@ -148,6 +148,11 @@ Issues of note:
> supported by Perforce) is needed to use the git-p4 interface
> to Perforce.
>  
> +   By default, git looks for Python installed in /usr/bin/python.
> +   On systems with a different Python installation path, pass the
> +   --with-python argument to configure, or set the PYTHON_PATH
> +   environment variable when using make to build.
> +
>   - Some platform specific issues are dealt with Makefile rules,
> but depending on your specific installation, you may not
> have all the libraries/tools needed, or you may have

Thanks for a patch, but I doubt that it is a good idea to do this.

The paragraph we see in the post-context of your patch is meant to
cover it, together with 47 other platform specific locations like
SHELL_PATH, PERL_PATH, CURLDIR, etc.
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Re: [PATCH] INSTALL: Add docs on how to use custom Python paths.

2015-08-31 Thread Luke Diamand
On 31 August 2015 at 14:22, Ehsan Akhgari  wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Ehsan Akhgari 
> ---
>  INSTALL | 5 +
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
> index ffb071e..5b7fe91 100644
> --- a/INSTALL
> +++ b/INSTALL
> @@ -148,6 +148,11 @@ Issues of note:
>   supported by Perforce) is needed to use the git-p4 interface
>   to Perforce.
>
> + By default, git looks for Python installed in /usr/bin/python.
> + On systems with a different Python installation path, pass the
> + --with-python argument to configure, or set the PYTHON_PATH
> + environment variable when using make to build.
> +
>   - Some platform specific issues are dealt with Makefile rules,
> but depending on your specific installation, you may not
> have all the libraries/tools needed, or you may have

Looks good to me.

Thanks
Luke
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[PATCH] INSTALL: Add docs on how to use custom Python paths.

2015-08-31 Thread Ehsan Akhgari
Signed-off-by: Ehsan Akhgari 
---
 INSTALL | 5 +
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index ffb071e..5b7fe91 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -148,6 +148,11 @@ Issues of note:
  supported by Perforce) is needed to use the git-p4 interface
  to Perforce.
 
+ By default, git looks for Python installed in /usr/bin/python.
+ On systems with a different Python installation path, pass the
+ --with-python argument to configure, or set the PYTHON_PATH
+ environment variable when using make to build.
+
  - Some platform specific issues are dealt with Makefile rules,
but depending on your specific installation, you may not
have all the libraries/tools needed, or you may have
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