Rather than asking one line at a time, can you provide the complete log, input and output of the attempted operation, including the download and tar? Thanks, Randall >-----Original Message----- >From: Mun Johl <Mun.Johl@xxxxxxx> >Sent: Saturday, August 12, 2023 1:33 AM >To: rsbecker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; 'Junio C Hamano' <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> >Cc: git@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >Subject: RE: "fatal: Not a git repository" issued during 'make' from source code > >Hi rsbecker, > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: rsbecker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <rsbecker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> Sent: Friday, August 11, 2023 2:46 PM >> To: Mun Johl <Mun.Johl@xxxxxxx>; 'Junio C Hamano' <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> >> Cc: 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. >> >> >> 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' ? > >[Mun] My apologies for not providing that data previously: Yes, I did run 'make >configure' prior to 'make prefix=/usr/local all doc'. > >Regards, > >-- >Mun
