Fail to compile phobos

[John Colvin via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Thursday, 25 September 2014 at 17:20:42 UTC, JJDuck wrote:
> I tried to compile phobos according to the last paragraph in 
> this page:
> http://dlang.org/dmd-linux.html
>
> but this is the error I have
> fatal: Not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): 
> .git
>
>
> I dont know what happened, i have tried for a few days.
>
> BTW, should I place my dmd2 folder at ~ or /usr/local/share. 
> which will have less prblem in installing and maintaining?
>
> Thanks

Nothing in the phobos build process (either the instructions or 
posix.mak) mention git, so I have no idea what's going on there.

Do you actually need to build phobos? Some distros have packages 
available for dmd.