Re: GIT 0.99.9

From: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
Date: Oct 30, 2005, 20:38 UTC
Message-ID: <20051030203808.A535B353E3E@atlas.denx.de>
In-Reply-To: <7vvezesyhi.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

In message <7vvezesyhi.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> you wrote:

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> > "make rpm" does not work for me:
> 
> I hate it when somebody tells me "it works for me", but I cannot
> help you here, sorry.  I'm no rpm expert and the "make rpm" rule
> seems to work for me.

OK, I found the problem. The key part is this:

[current directory: .../usr/share/git-core/templates/]
    (cd blt && tar cf - .) | \
    (cd '/var/tmp/git-core-0.99.9-1-root-wd/usr/share/git-core/templates/' && tar xf -)
    tar: This does not look like a tar archive
    tar: Skipping to next header
    tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

I have CDPATH set in my shell environment, and bash outputs the pathname of the new working directory on stdout; this gets piped together with the tarball to the "tar xf -", and the second tar complains that the directory name comes unexpected. Test:

-> cd /usr/local/BUILD/git-core-0.99.9/templates -> cd blt /usr/local/BUILD/git-core-0.99.9/templates/blt ->

As a workaround I can simply unset CDPATH, and the build works fine. A more robust build script woul make sure that CDPATH is not set.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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