From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9AAE9C0015E for ; Fri, 11 Aug 2023 20:18:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S230500AbjHKUSr (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Aug 2023 16:18:47 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:41998 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S229549AbjHKUSr (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Aug 2023 16:18:47 -0400 Received: from secure.elehost.com (secure.elehost.com [185.209.179.11]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 16E64D3 for ; Fri, 11 Aug 2023 13:18:45 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at secure.elehost.com Received: from Mazikeen (cpebc4dfb928313-cmbc4dfb928310.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com [99.228.251.108] (may be forged)) (authenticated bits=0) by secure.elehost.com (8.15.2/8.15.2/Debian-22ubuntu3) with ESMTPSA id 37BKGUkn872491 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NOT); Fri, 11 Aug 2023 20:16:30 GMT Reply-To: From: To: "'Mun Johl'" , References: In-Reply-To: Subject: RE: "fatal: Not a git repository" issued during 'make' from source code Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2023 16:18:37 -0400 Organization: Nexbridge Inc. Message-ID: <034501d9cc91$069bd360$13d37a20$@nexbridge.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 16.0 Thread-Index: AQGYfaIzxiLvNNliA6NGPhsdV5ubsbBoJogA Content-Language: en-ca Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org 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. --Randall