Re: Errors building git-1.5.2.2 on 64-bit Centos 5

From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Date: Jun 19, 2007, 14:13 UTC
Message-ID: <86wsy0qbfg.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0706191457440.4059@racer.site>

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

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> Hi,
>
> On Tue, 19 Jun 2007, Bill Lear wrote:
>
>> On Tuesday, June 19, 2007 at 14:00:07 (+0100) Johannes Schindelin writes:
>> >
>> >On Tue, 19 Jun 2007, Bill Lear wrote:
>> >
>> >> Also breaks (tar fails) if I do the 'make configure; ./configure'
>> >> route.
>> >
>> >Then there is a test missing in configure.
>> 
>> Here is the particular error:
>> 
>> install git '/opt/git-1.5.2.2/bin'
>> make -C templates DESTDIR='' install
>> make[1]: Entering directory `/home/blear/build/git-1.5.2.2/templates'
>> install -d -m755 '/opt/git-1.5.2.2/share/git-core/templates/'
>> (cd blt && gtar cf - .) | \
>> 	(cd '/opt/git-1.5.2.2/share/git-core/templates/' && gtar xf -)
>> 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
>> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/blear/build/git-1.5.2.2/templates'
>> make: *** [install] Error 2
>
> WTF? gtar cannot read its own output?
>
> Be that as may, this is not git error.

It is possible that cd is an alias outputting the target of cd. People do those kind of things. It is also possible that the first cd fails and thus the first gtar is not run (though tar xf /dev/null is quiet here, so probably should be at the OP's site, too.).

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David Kastrup