From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 22:57:03 GMT
Subject: Re: Error building installing on Redhat Linux Server release 5.3 (Tikanga)
Message-ID: <20100319225703.GA17058@progeny.tock>
In-Reply-To: <d557014b1003191436r4d141825p6c5b8e1b3bee4fc8@mail.gmail.com>

Michael Cox wrote:

> (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