From: <rsbecker@nexbridge.com>
To: "'Junio C Hamano'" <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: "'Mun Johl'" <Mun.Johl@wdc.com>, <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: "fatal: Not a git repository" issued during 'make' from source code
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2023 16:46:10 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <034d01d9cc94$df9db0e0$9ed912a0$@nexbridge.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqr0o9qpon.fsf@gitster.g>
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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-08-11 20:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-08-11 19:57 "fatal: Not a git repository" issued during 'make' from source code Mun Johl
2023-08-11 20:18 ` rsbecker
2023-08-11 20:22 ` Mun Johl
2023-08-11 20:26 ` Mun Johl
2023-08-11 20:41 ` rsbecker
2023-08-11 20:39 ` Junio C Hamano
2023-08-11 20:44 ` Junio C Hamano
2023-08-11 20:46 ` rsbecker [this message]
2023-08-11 21:15 ` Mun Johl
2023-08-11 21:46 ` rsbecker
2023-08-11 21:49 ` Junio C Hamano
2023-08-11 21:51 ` rsbecker
2023-08-12 5:32 ` Mun Johl
2023-08-14 14:54 ` rsbecker
2023-08-15 1:14 ` Mun Johl
2023-08-15 13:51 ` rsbecker
2023-08-16 0:19 ` Mun Johl
2023-08-11 21:46 ` Junio C Hamano
2023-08-12 5:30 ` Mun Johl
2023-08-12 0:54 ` Todd Zullinger
2023-08-12 5:38 ` Mun Johl
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