RE: "fatal: Not a git repository" issued during 'make' from source code

[<rsbecker@nexbridge.com>]

On Friday, August 11, 2023 5:15 PM, Mon Johl wrote:
>> On Friday, August 11, 2023 4:39 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> >Subject: Re: "fatal: Not a git repository" issued during 'make' from
>> >source
>> code
>> >
>> ><rsbecker@nexbridge.com> writes:
>> >
>> >> On Friday, August 11, 2023 3:57 PM, Mun Johl wrote:
>> >>>I am new to git and am trying to compile git-2.41.0 on RHEL7.  When
>> >>>I run
>> >> 'make
>> >>>prefix=/usr/local all doc', I get the following error:
>> >>>
>> >>>fatal: Not a git repository (or any parent up to mount point
>> >>>/tools)
>> >>>
>> >>>Which I infer means that I need to do the build within a git repo.
>> >>>Is
>> that
>> >> correct?  Or
>> >>>have I missed some basic step in the build process?
>> >>
>> >> Yes, you must be in the cloned git repository in order to run the
build.
>> >
>> >Shouldn't we be able to build out of a tarball?
>>
>> I don't get the impression he started with a tarball, so subsequently
>> sent the doc ref for that. Using just "make" is not sufficient from a
>> tarball.[Mun]
>
>[Mun] Thank you both for the information you have provided!  It turns out I
did in fact
>start from the tar-ball "git-2.41.0.tar.xz" which I downloaded from
>https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/ .  And then I ran the
'make'
>command.  The process went something like this (basically identical to what
Junio
>documented):
>
>$ tar xf git-2.41.0.tar.xz
>$ cd git-2.41.0
>$ make prefix=/usr/local all doc
>
>And with the above 'make' command I got the fatal error.
>
>I consulted the Getting-Started-Installing-Git web page that rsbecker
referenced, and
>it basically matches the above--except it uses the 'make configure'
process.  So I tried
>that method as well, but when I got to the 'make all doc info' step, I
again got the
>same fatal error.
>
>Due to some "security precautions", I am unable to use 'git clone
>https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git' to download the source code.
But I can try
>to figure out a workaround for that if that is my only option at this point
to
>successfully compile git.

Did you run 'make configure' before using 'make prefix=/usr/local all doc' ?