RE: "fatal: Not a git repository" issued during 'make' from source code

From: rsbecker@nexbridge.com <rsbecker@nexbridge.com>
Date: Aug 11, 2023, 21:46 UTC
Message-ID: <035b01d9cc9d$4c2168d0$e4643a70$@nexbridge.com>
In-Reply-To: <SJ0PR04MB82892A7EB350531DBE4701BA9C10A@SJ0PR04MB8289.namprd04.prod.outlook.com>

On Friday, August 11, 2023 5:15 PM, Mon Johl wrote:

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>> 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@nexbridge.com> 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.

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>> >
>> >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

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>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' ?