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

From: Michael Cox <mhcox@bluezoosoftware.com>
Date: Mar 19, 2010, 22:25 UTC
Message-ID: <d557014b1003191525m490d1bfam4e8ce40681ff2214@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7veijgc6md.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

That fixed the build problem.  Thank you!

But when I tried to run git after the successful build:

   git clone http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git

I still get the error message "fatal: Unable to find remote helper for 'http'"

Michael

P.S. I have to use http since I'm behind a firewall.

On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 4:02 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

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> Michael Cox <mhcox@bluezoosoftware.com> writes:
>
>> I downloaded the latest tarball (git-1.7.0.2), configured it, and
>> make'ed it.  When I did a "make install", the build seemed to work and
>> most of the install, but I got an error when the installation tried to
>> use gtar:
>>
>> make -C templates DESTDIR='' install
>> make[1]: Entering directory `/users/e477610/exptool/src/git-1.7.0.2/templates'
>> install -d -m 755 '/home/e477610/exptool/share/git-core/templates'
>> (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
>
> A shot in the dark:
>
>        $ unset CDPATH
>
> Also remove anything that sets CDPATH from your .bashrc if you are making
> it available to your non-interactive shell processes.
>