Changes between Version 40 and Version 41 of AdvancedInstall

Timestamp:

2011-01-29T21:18:05Z (13 years ago)

Author:

davidsarah

Comment:

add caveat about 'make install'

AdvancedInstall

@@ -175 +175 @@
 The "{{{make install}}}" Makefile target is a wrapper around "{{{setup.py install}}}"
 that uses {{{--single-version-externally-managed}}} to bypass the extra
-checking that setuptools does. This allows "{{{make install}}}"  to work the same way as traditional unix
-software (via GNU autoconf, etc).
+checking that setuptools does. This allows "{{{make install}}}"  to work
+somewhat more like traditional Unix software. However, once Tahoe has been
+installed this way, it may be difficult to get it to stop using the installed
+version even when using {{{bin/tahoe}}} from a different build directory;
+see #1258.
 
 ("{{{make install PREFIX=/usr/local}}}" does not currently work -- see #703.)