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From: Ian Hilt <Ian.Hilt@gmx.com>
To: tom fogal <tfogal@alumni.unh.edu>
Cc: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: BUG (v1.5.6.1): ./configure missing check for zlib.h
Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2008 23:13:55 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.1.10.0806282311100.3218@sys-0.hiltweb.site> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080627150732.D88F64B4002@artemis.sr.unh.edu>

On Fri, 27 Jun 2008 at 11:07am -0000, tom fogal wrote:

> I should note, however, that I disagree with that macro's logic in that
> it `searches' for zlib if the user does not specify it.  IMO, if the
> user does not give a --with option, and it doesn't work `out of the
> box' (without hacking FLAGS), macros should die with an error rather
> than retry with changed FLAGS.
> 
> -tom

Or, one could read the INSTALL file included with git,

 - Git is reasonably self-sufficient, but does depend on a few external
   programs and libraries:

	- "zlib", the compression library. Git won't build without it.

-- 
Ian Hilt
Ian.Hilt (at) gmx.com
GnuPG key: 0x4AFC1EE3

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-06-29  3:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-06-27 12:30 BUG (v1.5.6.1): ./configure missing check for zlib.h Mircea Bardac
2008-06-27 14:46 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-06-27 15:07   ` tom fogal
2008-06-27 23:03     ` Jakub Narebski
2008-06-29  3:13     ` Ian Hilt [this message]
2008-06-27 15:15   ` Mircea Bardac

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