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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
To: Michael Cox <mhcox@bluezoosoftware.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Error building installing on Redhat Linux Server release 5.3 (Tikanga)
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 17:57:03 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100319225703.GA17058@progeny.tock> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d557014b1003191436r4d141825p6c5b8e1b3bee4fc8@mail.gmail.com>

Michael Cox wrote:

> (cd blt && gtar cf - .) | \
>         (cd '/home/e477610/exptool/share/git-core/templates' && umask 022 && gtar xof -)
> gtar: This does not look like a tar archive
> gtar: Skipping to next header
> gtar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers
> gtar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
> make[1]: *** [install] Error 2

Your tar command seems to be seriously broken: it is producing output
that it cannot consume.

What is the output of “gtar --version”?  Does this problem still occur if
you try again?  If you run the command above by hand, does it produce
the same result?

I checked https://bugzilla.redhat.com/ for known problems but did not
find anything similar.  If this problem proves reproducible, I would
suggest reporting it with them.

In the mean time, you can use git without installing it by adding
/home/e477610/exptool/share/git-core/bin-wrappers to your $PATH. :)

Hope that helps,
Jonathan

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-03-19 22:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-19 21:36 Error building installing on Redhat Linux Server release 5.3 (Tikanga) Michael Cox
     [not found] ` <7veijgc6md.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
2010-03-19 22:25   ` Michael Cox
2010-03-19 22:51     ` Michael Cox
2010-03-19 23:40     ` [PATCH] Makefile: Fix CDPATH problem Jonathan Nieder
2010-03-19 23:43       ` Junio C Hamano
2010-03-20  0:06         ` [PATCH v2] " Jonathan Nieder
2010-03-19 22:57 ` Jonathan Nieder [this message]
2010-03-19 22:59   ` Error building installing on Redhat Linux Server release 5.3 (Tikanga) Jonathan Nieder

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