Re: Error building installing on Redhat Linux Server release 5.3 (Tikanga)

From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Mar 19, 2010, 22:57 UTC
Message-ID: <20100319225703.GA17058@progeny.tock>
In-Reply-To: <d557014b1003191436r4d141825p6c5b8e1b3bee4fc8@mail.gmail.com>

Michael Cox wrote:

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> (cd blt && gtar cf - .) | \
>         (cd '/home/e477610/exptool/share/git-core/templates' && umask 022 && gtar xof -)
> 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

Your tar command seems to be seriously broken: it is producing output that it cannot consume.

What is the output of “gtar --version”? Does this problem still occur if you try again? If you run the command above by hand, does it produce the same result?

I checked https://bugzilla.redhat.com/ for known problems but did not find anything similar. If this problem proves reproducible, I would suggest reporting it with them.

In the mean time, you can use git without installing it by adding /home/e477610/exptool/share/git-core/bin-wrappers to your $PATH. :)

Hope that helps, Jonathan