Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> <rsbecker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>> On Friday, August 11, 2023 3:57 PM, Mun Johl wrote:
>>>I am new to git and am trying to compile git-2.41.0 on RHEL7. When I run
>> 'make
>>>prefix=/usr/local all doc', I get the following error:
>>>
>>>fatal: Not a git repository (or any parent up to mount point /tools)
>>>
>>>Which I infer means that I need to do the build within a git repo. Is that
>> correct? Or
>>>have I missed some basic step in the build process?
>>
>> Yes, you must be in the cloned git repository in order to run the build.
>
> Shouldn't we be able to build out of a tarball?
In other words,
$ mkdir -p /var/tmp/x
$ cd /var/tmp/x
$ wget http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/testing/git-2.42.0.rc1.tar.xz
$ tar xf git-2.42.0.rc1.tar.xz
$ cd git-2.42.0.rc1
$ make prefix=/var/tmp/local all doc
$ sudo make prefix=/var/tmp/local install
is what I just did to make sure that a build from our tarball extract
does not require a git repository (it would be a bug to require one,
as it would make it impossible to bootstrap).
