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 16:51:45 -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 23:52:15 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 1Nsl38-0005ML-U8 for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Fri, 19 Mar 2010 23:52:15 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751380Ab0CSWwJ convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Mar 2010 18:52:09 -0400 Received: from mail-gw0-f46.google.com ([74.125.83.46]:39408 "EHLO mail-gw0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751212Ab0CSWwI convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Mar 2010 18:52:08 -0400 Received: by gwaa18 with SMTP id a18so41068gwa.19 for ; Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:52:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.90.12.17 with SMTP id 17mr1112634agl.44.1269039125213; Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:52:05 -0700 (PDT) X-Originating-IP: [199.64.0.252] In-Reply-To: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: I noticed the following messages in the config.log /usr/lib/gcc/i386-redhat-linux/4.1.2/../../../libcurl.so: undefined ref= erence to `tld_strerror' /usr/lib/gcc/i386-redhat-linux/4.1.2/../../../libcurl.so: undefined ref= erence to `idna_strerror' Could that be the source of my problem? Michael On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 4:25 PM, Michael Cox wrote: > 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 fo= r '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 w= rote: >> 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 = work 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-co= re/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 m= aking >> it available to your non-interactive shell processes. >> >