Hi Junio, > -----Original Message----- > From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Friday, August 11, 2023 2:46 PM > To: Mun Johl <Mun.Johl@xxxxxxx> > Cc: rsbecker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; git@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: "fatal: Not a git repository" issued during 'make' from source code > > CAUTION: This email originated from outside of Western Digital. Do not click on links or open attachments unless you recognize the > sender and know that the content is safe. > > > Mun Johl <Mun.Johl@xxxxxxx> writes: > > > 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. > > If building from tarball extract fails with "not a git repository" > there is something very wrong with what you are doing, and we do not > know what it is. > > Most likely cause new folks fail to build from the source is lack of > necessary development libraries and packages that need to be > installed in their build environment, but I am reasonably certain > that if a tarball extract build is failing due to their environment, > build in a clone of the source repository would fail for exactly the > same reason. [Mun] Good point. I'm certain I don't have all of the requisite packages. I was expecting to see errors about missing packages, but was thrown off by the fatal error. I will go back and look closely at the output from 'make' and see if I see any errors prior to the fatal error. Thank you and regards, -- Mun
