That fixed the build problem. Thank you! But when I tried to run git after the successful build: git 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 <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Michael Cox <mhcox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> 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 > > A shot in the dark: > > $ unset CDPATH > > Also remove anything that sets CDPATH from your .bashrc if you are making > it available to your non-interactive shell processes. > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html