Re: [PATCH] Add more instructions about how to install git.

[Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@gmail.com>]

2009/9/8 Thiago Farina <tfransosi@gmail.com>:
> On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 10:38 AM, Johannes Sixt<j.sixt@viscovery.net> wrote:
>> Thiago Farina schrieb:
>>> I tried to being more explicit about what the new users has to do. The
>>> first instruction that the text says is: "Normaly you can just do
>>> "make"".
>>> But the new user, cloning git won't have a configure file, so he can't
>>> just do "make".
>>>
>>> And then, the text says: "so you can write instead". This brings me to
>>> one alternative (not what I really should do), when in fact it should
>>> be (I guess) the first instructions that new users need to follow.
>>
>> Then guessed wrong. You really only have to say "make". The use of
>> autoconf and ./configure is purely optional and not necessary.
> I don't think so.
> Running only "make".
> $ make
> GIT_VERSION = 1.6.5.rc0
>    * new build flags or prefix
>    CC fast-import.o
> In file included from builtin.h:4,
>                 from fast-import.c:143:
> git-compat-util.h:129:25: error: openssl/ssl.h: No such file or directory
> git-compat-util.h:130:25: error: openssl/err.h: No such file or directory
[snip]

You need to edit the Makefile if your system needs tweaks, there are tons
of comments.

> Running configure and then make
> $ make configure
> GIT_VERSION = 1.6.5.rc0.dirty
>    GEN configure
> $ make
>    CC fast-import.o
> In file included from builtin.h:4,
>                 from fast-import.c:143:
> git-compat-util.h:129:25: error: openssl/ssl.h: No such file or directory
> git-compat-util.h:130:25: error: openssl/err.h: No such file or directory

You forgot to run configure.

> Now autconf, ./configure, make.
> $ autoconf
> $ ./configure
> configure: Setting lib to 'lib' (the default)
> configure: Will try -pthread then -lpthread to enable POSIX Threads.
> configure: CHECKS for site configuration
> configure: CHECKS for programs
[...]
> checking for mkstemps... no
> checking Checking for POSIX Threads with '-pthread'... yes
> configure: creating ./config.status
> config.status: error: cannot find input file: config.mak.in
> $ make
>
> Now it compiles everything.

-- 
Mikael Magnusson