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

Bill Lear [off-list ref] writes:

On Tuesday, June 19, 2007 at 16:30:00 (+0200) Marco Roeland writes:

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On Tuesday June 19th 2007 at 08:50 Bill Lear wrote:

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I checked and there is no iconv package (rpm).  I really don't want
to have to temporarily rename a header.  I can't hand this out to
the rest of the company, some of whom do not have root access to
be able to rename header files.

You might at least investigate if there is somehow another iconv.h
header besides the system one under /usr/include, that might have been
used by the compiler instead of the standard one from GNU libc.

Ok, I moved all the *iconv* stuff in /usr/local/<blah> and now
it builds ok.

However, I still get this:

install -d -m755 '/opt/git-1.5.2.2/share//git-core/templates/'

                                         ^^^

(cd blt && tar cf - .) | \
	(cd '/opt/git-1.5.2.2/share//git-core/templates/' && tar xf -)

                                   ^^^

tar: This does not look like a tar archive
tar: Skipping to next header
tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

So, I did a make -k and it worked ok, aside from this error.

I copied this line:

(cd blt && tar cf - .) | \
	(cd '/opt/git-1.5.2.2/share//git-core/templates/' && tar xf -)

                                   ^^^

into a file, chmod +x'd that file, and cd'd into templates and ran
the script.  I got the same error.  I then tried running it by
hand from the command line:

% cd templates
% (cd blt && tar cf - .) | (cd /opt/git-1.5.2.2/share/git-core/templates
                                                    ^^^
&& tar xf -)

and it worked fine.

Not sure whether this is the problem: either cd does not understasnd
the double slashes, or your shell used for scripts has modified cd to
output some stuff when it is working (people sometimes imprudently
make shell functions or aliases for this).

Try writing something like

type cd

in a script file and see what output you get.

-- 
David Kastrup