From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ian Hilt Subject: Re: BUG (v1.5.6.1): ./configure missing check for zlib.h Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2008 23:13:55 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: References: <4864DD65.1080402@mircea.bardac.net> <20080627150732.D88F64B4002@artemis.sr.unh.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Jakub Narebski , git@vger.kernel.org To: tom fogal X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Jun 29 05:15:24 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KCnNo-000350-H3 for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Sun, 29 Jun 2008 05:15:20 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753639AbYF2DNr (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Jun 2008 23:13:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753664AbYF2DNr (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Jun 2008 23:13:47 -0400 Received: from mail.gmx.com ([74.208.5.67]:39884 "HELO mail.gmx.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1753606AbYF2DNq (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Jun 2008 23:13:46 -0400 Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 29 Jun 2008 03:13:44 -0000 Received: from cpe-75-185-208-72.woh.res.rr.com (EHLO [192.168.1.1]) [75.185.208.72] by mail.gmx.com (mp-us003) with SMTP; 28 Jun 2008 23:13:44 -0400 X-Authenticated: #47758715 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1+UnG5q5wyUdMxoy0P29N/WgBTg+yoNzGUyIit6oM +nQanrDD1XbCvE In-Reply-To: <20080627150732.D88F64B4002@artemis.sr.unh.edu> User-Agent: Alpine 1.10 (LFD 962 2008-03-14) X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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