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 B47C1C0015E for ; Fri, 11 Aug 2023 21:46:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S236923AbjHKVqk (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Aug 2023 17:46:40 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:55982 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S236488AbjHKVqh (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Aug 2023 17:46:37 -0400 Received: from secure.elehost.com (secure.elehost.com [185.209.179.11]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7AAF0271B for ; Fri, 11 Aug 2023 14:46:37 -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 37BLiLhK884544 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NOT); Fri, 11 Aug 2023 21:44:21 GMT Reply-To: From: To: "'Mun Johl'" , "'Junio C Hamano'" Cc: References: <034501d9cc91$069bd360$13d37a20$@nexbridge.com> <034d01d9cc94$df9db0e0$9ed912a0$@nexbridge.com> In-Reply-To: Subject: RE: "fatal: Not a git repository" issued during 'make' from source code Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2023 17:46:28 -0400 Organization: Nexbridge Inc. Message-ID: <035b01d9cc9d$4c2168d0$e4643a70$@nexbridge.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 16.0 Thread-Index: AQGYfaIzxiLvNNliA6NGPhsdV5ubsQMKIH4jAmvty4sCHttM2gLYUX00sBTVNNA= Content-Language: en-ca Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org On Friday, August 11, 2023 5:15 PM, Mon Johl wrote: >> On Friday, August 11, 2023 4:39 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote: >> >Subject: Re: "fatal: Not a git repository" issued during 'make' from >> >source >> code >> > >> > writes: >> > >> >> On Friday, August 11, 2023 3:57 PM, Mun Johl wrote: >> >>>I am new to git and am trying to compile git-2.41.0 on RHEL7. When >> >>>I run >> >> 'make >> >>>prefix=/usr/local all doc', I get the following error: >> >>> >> >>>fatal: Not a git repository (or any parent up to mount point >> >>>/tools) >> >>> >> >>>Which I infer means that I need to do the build within a git repo. >> >>>Is >> that >> >> correct? Or >> >>>have I missed some basic step in the build process? >> >> >> >> Yes, you must be in the cloned git repository in order to run the build. >> > >> >Shouldn't we be able to build out of a tarball? >> >> I don't get the impression he started with a tarball, so subsequently >> sent the doc ref for that. Using just "make" is not sufficient from a >> tarball.[Mun] > >[Mun] Thank you both for the information you have provided! It turns out I did in fact >start from the tar-ball "git-2.41.0.tar.xz" which I downloaded from >https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/ . And then I ran the 'make' >command. The process went something like this (basically identical to what Junio >documented): > >$ 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' ?