Re: Errors building git-1.5.2.2 on 64-bit Centos 5

Johannes Schindelin [off-list ref] writes:

Hi,

On Tue, 19 Jun 2007, Bill Lear wrote:

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On Tuesday, June 19, 2007 at 14:00:07 (+0100) Johannes Schindelin writes:

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On Tue, 19 Jun 2007, Bill Lear wrote:

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Also breaks (tar fails) if I do the 'make configure; ./configure'
route.

Then there is a test missing in configure.

Here is the particular error:

install git '/opt/git-1.5.2.2/bin'
make -C templates DESTDIR='' install
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/blear/build/git-1.5.2.2/templates'
install -d -m755 '/opt/git-1.5.2.2/share/git-core/templates/'
(cd blt && gtar cf - .) | \
	(cd '/opt/git-1.5.2.2/share/git-core/templates/' && gtar xf -)
gtar: This does not look like a tar archive
gtar: Skipping to next header
gtar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers
gtar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
make[1]: *** [install] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/blear/build/git-1.5.2.2/templates'
make: *** [install] Error 2

WTF? gtar cannot read its own output?

Be that as may, this is not git error.

It is possible that cd is an alias outputting the target of cd.
People do those kind of things.  It is also possible that the first cd
fails and thus the first gtar is not run (though tar xf /dev/null is
quiet here, so probably should be at the OP's site, too.).

-- 
David Kastrup