From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff King Subject: Re: git 2.1.0: make fails Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2014 18:42:01 -0400 Message-ID: <20140909224201.GE14029@peff.net> References: <540F643A.60207@verizon.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Gerry Reno X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Sep 10 00:42:14 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XRU72-00018X-2Z for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Wed, 10 Sep 2014 00:42:12 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752866AbaIIWmG (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Sep 2014 18:42:06 -0400 Received: from cloud.peff.net ([50.56.180.127]:46259 "HELO cloud.peff.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1752679AbaIIWmE (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Sep 2014 18:42:04 -0400 Received: (qmail 20522 invoked by uid 102); 9 Sep 2014 22:42:04 -0000 Received: from Unknown (HELO peff.net) (10.0.1.1) by cloud.peff.net (qpsmtpd/0.84) with SMTP; Tue, 09 Sep 2014 17:42:04 -0500 Received: (qmail 11683 invoked by uid 107); 9 Sep 2014 22:42:23 -0000 Received: from sigill.intra.peff.net (HELO sigill.intra.peff.net) (10.0.0.7) by peff.net (qpsmtpd/0.84) with SMTP; Tue, 09 Sep 2014 18:42:23 -0400 Received: by sigill.intra.peff.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Tue, 09 Sep 2014 18:42:01 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <540F643A.60207@verizon.net> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Tue, Sep 09, 2014 at 04:34:02PM -0400, Gerry Reno wrote: > Downloaded the git-2.1.0.tar.gz tarball. > > Cannot build git 2.1.0: Weird. It works fine for me on Debian unstable. What platform are you on? > cc -g -O2 -Wall -I. -DHAVE_ALLOCA_H -DHAVE_PATHS_H -DHAVE_DEV_TTY -DHAVE_CLOCK_GETTIME > -DSHA1_HEADER='' -DNO_STRLCPY -DNO_MKSTEMPS -DSHELL_PATH='"/bin/sh"' -o git-credential-store > credential-store.o libgit.a xdiff/lib.a -lz -lcrypto -lpthread -lrt > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status > make: *** [git-credential-store] Error 1 So the linker failed, but it didn't actually tell us why. That's not much to go on. Are you sure there was no other output on stderr? I assume the reason it broke on git-credential-store is just because it is the first thing we try to link. What does: make V=1 prefix=/usr/local git output? Does it successfully link "git"? -Peff