I noticed the following messages in the config.log
/usr/lib/gcc/i386-redhat-linux/4.1.2/../../../libcurl.so: undefined reference to
`tld_strerror'
/usr/lib/gcc/i386-redhat-linux/4.1.2/../../../libcurl.so: undefined reference to
`idna_strerror'
Could that be the source of my problem?
Michael
On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 4:25 PM, Michael Cox <mhcox@bluezoosoftware.com> wrote:
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> 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:
>> 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.
>>
>
Michael Cox <mhcox@bluezoosoftware.com>