Re: cg-clone produces "___" file and no working tree

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Apr 20, 2006, 17:36 UTC
Message-ID: <7vejzsywrq.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <20060420164908.GA540@tumblerings.org>

Zack Brown <zbrown@tumblerings.org> writes:

> I just downloaded the latest versions of git and cogito from kernel.org:
> cogito-0.17.2 and git-1.3.0; put their directories in my path, and ran "make" on
> both of them. There's no other version in my path.

Earlier, you were having this symptom:

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>> What do these command say?
>> 
>> 	$ git --exec-path
>> 	$ ls -l "`git --exec-path`/git-clone"
>
> 22:07:05 [zbrown] ~$ git --exec-path
> /home/zbrown/bin
> 07:10:34 [zbrown] ~$ ls -l "`git --exec-path`/git-clone"
> ls: /home/zbrown/bin/git-clone: No such file or directory
>
> Does that mean it's looking in /home/zbrown/bin for the git binaries?

If that is the case, you did not just (quote) "and ran "make"".

You must have run "make frotz=xyzzy target", but you did not mention what frotz, xyzzy and target were.

> 09:46:55 [zbrown] ~/git/trees$ "ls" -ltc `which git; which git-init-db`
> -rwxrwxr-x 2 zbrown zbrown 452312 Apr 20 09:44 /home/zbrown/git/git//git
> -rwxrwxr-x 1 zbrown zbrown 235282 Apr 20 09:43 /home/zbrown/git/git//git-init-db

So you are doing

	make bindir=$HOME/git/git/ install

as the last step of your installation. I _strongly_ suspect your breakage is caused because you did a make with different configuration before that. That is, if you do this, that is consistent with the symptom:

	make
	make bindir=$HOME/git/git/ gitexecdir=$HOME/git/git/ install

It probably would help if you did this:

	make clean
	make bindir=$HOME/git/git gitexecdir=$HOME/git/git/
	make bindir=$HOME/git/git gitexecdir=$HOME/git/git/ install

As I said in a previous message, the first paragraph in INSTALL file explains this.