From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael Cox Subject: Error building installing on Redhat Linux Server release 5.3 (Tikanga) Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:36:05 -0600 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Mar 19 22:44:16 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NsjzL-000802-Ga for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Fri, 19 Mar 2010 22:44:15 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752245Ab0CSVoK (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Mar 2010 17:44:10 -0400 Received: from mail-gy0-f174.google.com ([209.85.160.174]:55585 "EHLO mail-gy0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751305Ab0CSVoI (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Mar 2010 17:44:08 -0400 Received: by gyg8 with SMTP id 8so1734843gyg.19 for ; Fri, 19 Mar 2010 14:44:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.91.19.11 with SMTP id w11mr1033798agi.114.1269034585327; Fri, 19 Mar 2010 14:36:25 -0700 (PDT) X-Originating-IP: [199.64.0.252] Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: I downloaded the latest tarball (git-1.7.0.2), configured it, and make'ed it. When I did a "make install", the build seemed to work and most of the install, but I got an error when the installation tried to use gtar: make -C templates DESTDIR='' install make[1]: Entering directory `/users/e477610/exptool/src/git-1.7.0.2/templates' install -d -m 755 '/home/e477610/exptool/share/git-core/templates' (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 make[1]: Leaving directory `/users/e477610/exptool/src/git-1.7.0.2/templates' make: *** [install] Error 2 When I try to run "git clone http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git", I get the following error: $ git clone http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git Initialized empty Git repository in /users/e477610/exptool/src/git/.git/ fatal: Unable to find remote helper for 'http' I assume it's because I didn't finish the install properly. Any ideas why the install of the build failed and what I could do to make it complete? Michael