Hi All,
Due to my unusual environment, I ran into two issues when installing git
1.5.2.4 from source.
Although these are unusual, they might not be unique and the fixes are easy:
1. The make install failed because of line 49 in templates/Makefile:
(cd blt && $(TAR) cf - .) | \
(cd '$(DESTDIR_SQ)$(template_dir_SQ)' && $(TAR) xf -)
because I have CDPATH set, the 'cd blt' actually outputs the new
directory on stdout
which confuses the second tar. Changing this to 'cd ./blt' fixes
it. Perhaps this could
be considered a bash bug.
2. My home directory containing my build tree is NFS-mounted, and
root doesn't have any
permission to write it. So, when doing 'make prefix=/usr/local
install-doc' as root, I got these errors:
# make prefix=/usr/local install-doc
make -C Documentation install
make[1]: Entering directory
`/net/da01/home/jre/build/git-1.5.2.4/Documentation'
rm -f doc.dep+ doc.dep
rm: cannot remove `doc.dep': Permission denied
make[1]: *** [doc.dep] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory
`/net/da01/home/jre/build/git-1.5.2.4/Documentation'
make: *** [install-doc] Error 2
I'm not sure what the best fix is for the second problem. rm -f ignores
non-existent files but not permission errors.
I guess you could do 'rm -f doc.dep || true'.
No response necessary. Just thought you might like to know about
these. Otherwise, git seems nice!
Thanks,
Joe Eykholt
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