Hi Junio and rsbecker, Please see my comments below. > On Friday, August 11, 2023 4:39 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote: > >Subject: Re: "fatal: Not a git repository" issued during 'make' from source > code > > > ><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? > > I don't get the impression he started with a tarball, so subsequently sent > the doc ref for that. Using just "make" is not sufficient from a tarball.[Mun] [Mun] Thank you both for the information you have provided! It turns out I did in fact start from the tar-ball "git-2.41.0.tar.xz" which I downloaded from https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/ . And then I ran the 'make' command. The process went something like this (basically identical to what Junio documented): $ tar xf git-2.41.0.tar.xz $ cd git-2.41.0 $ make prefix=/usr/local all doc And with the above 'make' command I got the fatal error. I consulted the Getting-Started-Installing-Git web page that rsbecker referenced, and it basically matches the above--except it uses the 'make configure' process. So I tried that method as well, but when I got to the 'make all doc info' step, I again got the same fatal error. Due to some "security precautions", I am unable to use 'git clone https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git' to download the source code. But I can try to figure out a workaround for that if that is my only option at this point to successfully compile git. Thank you and regards, -- Mun
