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> -----Original Message-----
> From: rsbecker@nexbridge.com <rsbecker@nexbridge.com>
> Sent: Friday, August 11, 2023 2:46 PM
> To: Mun Johl <Mun.Johl@wdc.com>; 'Junio C Hamano' <gitster@pobox.com>
> Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
> Subject: RE: "fatal: Not a git repository" issued during 'make' from source code
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> On Friday, August 11, 2023 5:15 PM, Mon Johl wrote:
> >> On Friday, August 11, 2023 4:39 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> >> >Subject: Re: "fatal: Not a git repository" issued during 'make' from
> >> >source
> >> code
> >> >
> >> ><rsbecker@nexbridge.com> writes:
> >> >
> >> >> On Friday, August 11, 2023 3:57 PM, Mun Johl wrote:
> >> >>>I am new to git and am trying to compile git-2.41.0 on RHEL7. When
> >> >>>I run
> >> >> 'make
> >> >>>prefix=/usr/local all doc', I get the following error:
> >> >>>
> >> >>>fatal: Not a git repository (or any parent up to mount point
> >> >>>/tools)
> >> >>>
> >> >>>Which I infer means that I need to do the build within a git repo.
> >> >>>Is
> >> that
> >> >> correct? Or
> >> >>>have I missed some basic step in the build process?
> >> >>
> >> >> Yes, you must be in the cloned git repository in order to run the
> build.
> >> >
> >> >Shouldn't we be able to build out of a tarball?
> >>
> >> I don't get the impression he started with a tarball, so subsequently
> >> sent the doc ref for that. Using just "make" is not sufficient from a
> >> tarball.[Mun]
> >
> >[Mun] Thank you both for the information you have provided! It turns out I
> did in fact
> >start from the tar-ball "git-2.41.0.tar.xz" which I downloaded from
> >https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/ . And then I ran the
> 'make'
> >command. The process went something like this (basically identical to what
> Junio
> >documented):
> >
> >$ tar xf git-2.41.0.tar.xz
> >$ cd git-2.41.0
> >$ make prefix=/usr/local all doc
> >
> >And with the above 'make' command I got the fatal error.
> >
> >I consulted the Getting-Started-Installing-Git web page that rsbecker
> referenced, and
> >it basically matches the above--except it uses the 'make configure'
> process. So I tried
> >that method as well, but when I got to the 'make all doc info' step, I
> again got the
> >same fatal error.
> >
> >Due to some "security precautions", I am unable to use 'git clone
> >https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git' to download the source code.
> But I can try
> >to figure out a workaround for that if that is my only option at this point
> to
> >successfully compile git.
>
> Did you run 'make configure' before using 'make prefix=/usr/local all doc' ?