[petsc-users] Could not execute "['git', 'rev-parse', '--git-dir']"

[Satish Balay]

On Wed, 4 Apr 2018, Satish Balay wrote:

> On Wed, 4 Apr 2018, Satish Balay wrote:
> 
> > was your '2.16.2' version installed from source?
> 
> >>>
> Checking for program /usr/bin/git...found
>                 Defined make macro "GIT" to "git"
> Executing: git --version
> stdout: git version 2.16.2
> <<<<
> 
> I gues its the OS default package
> 
> >>>>>
> Machine platform:
> ('Linux', 'falcon1', '3.0.101-108.13-default', '#1 SMP Wed Oct 11 12:30:40 UTC 2017 (294ccfe)', 'x86_64', 'x86_64')
> Python version:
> 2.6.9 (unknown, Aug  5 2016, 11:15:31)
> [GCC 4.3.4 [gcc-4_3-branch revision 152973]]
> <<<<
> 
> What OS/version is on this machine? I can try reproducing in a VM

It is strange that the kernel is old [3.0 - perhaps LTS OS] , python is old [2.6] - but git is new? [2.16?]

https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/
git-2.16.2.tar.gz                                  16-Feb-2018 17:48      7M

Satish