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Difficulty
Easy
git
Goal
Compile the latest git, this guide assumes you are using the eSG provided installation.
Steps
Library Prerequisites
yum install curl-devel expat-devel gettext-devel openssl-devel zlib-devel gcc perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker
EXPORTS used to set versions
You can change the values here to change compiled version.
GIT_VERSION=2.20.1
Fetch git
cd /usr/local
wget https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/git-${GIT_VERSION}.tar.gz
tar zxfv git-${GIT_VERSION}.tar.gz
cd git-${GIT_VERSION}
Build git
make prefix=/usr/local/git all
Install git
make prefix=/usr/local/git install