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Building from source: issues with git
Hello,
I am following steps on the following page to install Elixir on my Centos 6 32-bit VM: Install Erlang and Elixir in CentOS 7 | Unixmen
I have the latest version of Erlang/OTP installed, and now I’m following steps in the “Install Elixir” section. I cloned the git repo but when I run “make clean test”, I’m getting errors when the script is trying to test the mix tool:
(Mix.Error) Command “git -c core.hooksPath=‘’ init --quiet” failed
My git does not recognize the “-c” option. Is there a way for me to somehow circumvent this, e.g. by providing the necessary custom options via a config file? Where in the source code would I have to look for this?
Regards,
Michal
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OvermindDL1
What version of git (git --version) do you have? The -c option is ancient… I don’t recall what version it was added but way way back in the v1 era as I recall. You do have at least version 2.x of git installed to start with (even v2 is many many years old, like 6 or 7 years old I think)?
EDIT: If you do have a git version older than v2 then you really badly need to update it. V1 had insecure hash generation (not just theoretically) that has since been updated along with a lot of other security fixes, not to mention all the other security and other fixes since v2.0.0 first came out.
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NobbZ
According to http://mirror.centos.org/centos/7/os/x86_64/Packages/, a git 1.8.3.1 is served. Which again is from 2013 according to the tag (Release v1.8.3.1 · git/git · GitHub).
So yes, that system needs an update…
This means nothing to me on any distribution, especially not on RHEL or CentOS. Especially after “latest” in EPEL seems to be OTP 16B3. Elixir 1.0 needs at least OTP 17. A current elxir needs at least OTP 19.
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NobbZ
I never run unit tests when compiling from a tag, so perhaps you should provide additional info, as exact fail message, tag/sha you built from and which OTP you used.
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