From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael Cox Subject: Re: Error building installing on Redhat Linux Server release 5.3 (Tikanga) Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 16:25:50 -0600 Message-ID: References: <7veijgc6md.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Mar 19 23:26:20 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 1Nske3-0003M5-HS for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Fri, 19 Mar 2010 23:26:19 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751629Ab0CSW0N convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Mar 2010 18:26:13 -0400 Received: from mail-gy0-f174.google.com ([209.85.160.174]:39787 "EHLO mail-gy0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751528Ab0CSW0L convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Mar 2010 18:26:11 -0400 Received: by gyg8 with SMTP id 8so1748297gyg.19 for ; Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:26:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.90.108.6 with SMTP id g6mr1110609agc.100.1269037570251; Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:26:10 -0700 (PDT) X-Originating-IP: [199.64.0.252] In-Reply-To: <7veijgc6md.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: That fixed the build problem. =C2=A0Thank you! But when I tried to run git after the successful build: =C2=A0 =C2=A0git clone http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git I still get the error message "fatal: Unable to find remote helper for = 'http'" Michael P.S. I have to use http since I'm behind a firewall. On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 4:02 PM, Junio C Hamano wro= te: > Michael Cox writes: > >> I downloaded the latest tarball (git-1.7.0.2), configured it, and >> make'ed it. =C2=A0When I did a "make install", the build seemed to w= ork and >> most of the install, but I got an error when the installation tried = to >> use gtar: >> >> make -C templates DESTDIR=3D'' 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 - .) | \ >> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 (cd '/home/e477610/exptool/share/git-cor= e/templates' && umask >> 022 && gtar xof -) >> gtar: This does not look like a tar archive > > A shot in the dark: > > =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0$ unset CDPATH > > Also remove anything that sets CDPATH from your .bashrc if you are ma= king > it available to your non-interactive shell processes. >