On Friday, August 11, 2023 5:15 PM, Mon Johl wrote: >> 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. Did you run 'make configure' before using 'make prefix=/usr/local all doc' ?
