# make install error 6 messages from 2010-01-28 to 2010-01-28. Participants: kap4lin, Junio C Hamano, Alex Riesen. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/22417 ## kap4lin, 2010-01-28 00:58 Subject: make install error Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/daef5be81001271658y4188445bofea2e3d576df91e5%40mail.gmail.com ``` Hi, (Kindly Cc me, I am not subscribed) Process followed: $ make configure $ ./configure --prefix=/scratch/kap4lin/usr $ make all $ make install The make install step is giving the following error: make -C templates DESTDIR='' install make[1]: Entering directory `/scratch/kap4lin/softwares/git-1.6.6.1/templates' install -d -m 755 '/scratch/kap4lin/usr/share/git-core/templates' (cd blt && gtar cf - .) | \ (cd '/scratch/kap4lin/usr/share/git-core/templates' && umask 022 && gtar xof -) 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 `/scratch/kap4lin/softwares/git-1.6.6.1/templates' make: *** [install] Error 2 Any help? -- Regards Kap4Lin -------------------------------------- http://counter.li.org #402424 ``` ## Junio C Hamano, 2010-01-28 02:53 Subject: Re: make install error Message-ID: <7v8wbjndn6.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/7v8wbjndn6.fsf%40alter.siamese.dyndns.org In-Reply-To: ``` kap4lin writes: > (cd blt && gtar cf - .) | \ > (cd '/scratch/kap4lin/usr/share/git-core/templates' && umask > 022 && gtar xof -) > 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 `/scratch/kap4lin/softwares/git-1.6.6.1/templates' > make: *** [install] Error 2 > > Any help? Perhaps "unset CDPATH". Also look for "export CDPATH" in your .bash_profile and remove it (and either remove CDPATH=... from your .bashrc or make it conditional only to interactive sessions). Setting CDPATH for non-interactive sessions does not make any sense and asking for troubles. ``` ## Alex Riesen, 2010-01-28 08:48 Subject: Re: make install error Message-ID: <81b0412b1001280048y6f91ad25t5c636f959630825@mail.gmail.com> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/81b0412b1001280048y6f91ad25t5c636f959630825%40mail.gmail.com In-Reply-To: <7v8wbjndn6.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> ``` On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 03:53, Junio C Hamano wrote: > kap4lin writes: > >> (cd blt && gtar cf - .) | \ >>         (cd '/scratch/kap4lin/usr/share/git-core/templates' && umask >> 022 && gtar xof -) >> gtar: This does not look like a tar archive > > Perhaps "unset CDPATH". > BTW, will "cd ./blt &>/dev/null" also help and prevent this problem from happening ever again? ``` ## Junio C Hamano, 2010-01-28 08:56 Subject: Re: make install error Message-ID: <7vockemwu3.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/7vockemwu3.fsf%40alter.siamese.dyndns.org In-Reply-To: <81b0412b1001280048y6f91ad25t5c636f959630825@mail.gmail.com> ``` Alex Riesen writes: > On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 03:53, Junio C Hamano wrote: >> kap4lin writes: >> >>> (cd blt && gtar cf - .) | \ >>>         (cd '/scratch/kap4lin/usr/share/git-core/templates' && umask >>> 022 && gtar xof -) >>> gtar: This does not look like a tar archive >> >> Perhaps "unset CDPATH". >> > > BTW, will "cd ./blt &>/dev/null" also help and prevent this problem from > happening ever again? Except that (1) it would be ">/dev/null", and (2) why contaminate Makefile command lines with such unreadability to work around stupid misdesign of CDPATH? I _could_ live with something like this that won't affect the main part of the Makefile, though. Makefile | 4 ++++ 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile index af08c8f..20b0b34 100644 --- a/Makefile +++ b/Makefile @@ -1,6 +1,10 @@ # The default target of this Makefile is... all:: +# Work around CDPATH exported to the environment that would +# break "(cd there && tar cf - ) | tar xf -" and the like. +CDPATH := + # Define V=1 to have a more verbose compile. # # Define SHELL_PATH to a POSIX shell if your /bin/sh is broken. ``` ## Alex Riesen, 2010-01-28 10:27 Subject: Re: make install error Message-ID: <81b0412b1001280227q6ab45a52i8df56ef4cfb4219c@mail.gmail.com> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/81b0412b1001280227q6ab45a52i8df56ef4cfb4219c%40mail.gmail.com In-Reply-To: <7vockemwu3.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> ``` On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 09:56, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Alex Riesen writes: >> >> BTW, will "cd ./blt &>/dev/null" also help and prevent this problem from >> happening ever again? > > Except that (1) it would be ">/dev/null", and (2) why contaminate Makefile > command lines with such unreadability to work around stupid misdesign of > CDPATH? Eh... Right :) ``` ## kap4lin, 2010-01-28 16:25 Subject: Re: make install error Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/daef5be81001280825y7d2fefd7x9c41c4f202294fd5%40mail.gmail.com In-Reply-To: <7v8wbjndn6.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> ``` Hi, (Kindly Cc me, thanks.) On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 9:53 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote: > kap4lin writes: > >> (cd blt && gtar cf - .) | \ >>         (cd '/scratch/kap4lin/usr/share/git-core/templates' && umask >> 022 && gtar xof -) >> 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 `/scratch/kap4lin/softwares/git-1.6.6.1/templates' >> make: *** [install] Error 2 >> >> Any help? > > Perhaps "unset CDPATH". Thanks. This solved the issue. I'll make a note of this in future. -- Regards Kap4Lin -------------------------------------- http://counter.li.org #402424 ```