Re: Chicken/egg problem building from a 'git clone'

[Joi Ellis <gyles19@visi.com>]

On Fri, 6 Feb 2009, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On Fri, 6 Feb 2009, Joi Ellis wrote:
> 
> > "make all" fails becuase my libaries are old:
> > 
> >     LINK git-fast-import
> > fast-import.o: In function `store_object':
> > /usr/local/src/git/git/fast-import.c:1086: undefined reference to `deflateBound'
> > /usr/local/src/git/git/fast-import.c:1109: undefined reference to `deflateBound'
> 
> You need to install a newer libz.  (And this is not a chicken & egg 
> problem.)

Yes, this *is* a chicken & egg problem.  As I said in my original post,
git will build on this machine if I have a configure script to run
first.  The configure script explicitly checks for the version of libz
and sets a DEFINE appropriately.  Because there is no configure script
provided, and because my autoconf is considered too old, I simply can't
start the build process because I can't generate the missing configure
script.

Other projects put the configure script into source control to avoid
exactly this issue.

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