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From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
To: Mircea Bardac <dev@bardac.net>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: BUG (v1.5.6.1): ./configure missing check for zlib.h
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 07:46:50 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3prq3hr6n.fsf@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4864DD65.1080402@mircea.bardac.net>

Mircea Bardac <dev@mircea.bardac.net> writes:

> $ ./configure
[...]
> configure: CHECKS for header files

Here ./configure check for existence of heder files, but only those
that can be skipped by defining some macro...

> configure: CHECKS for site configuration

...and here is check for --with-zlib=<path to zlib>

> configure: creating ./config.status
> config.status: creating config.mak.autogen
> 
> $ make
> GIT_VERSION = 1.5.6.1
>      * new build flags or prefix
>      CC daemon.o
> In file included from daemon.c:1:
> cache.h:9:18: error: zlib.h: No such file or directory
> make: *** [daemon.o] Error 1
> 
> (installing zlib1g-dev on Ubuntu 7.10 fixed the problem)

What should ./configure do (what ./configure for other programs
or packages do)?

You cannot compile git without zlib!
-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland
ShadeHawk on #git

  reply	other threads:[~2008-06-27 14:47 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 [this message]
2008-06-27 15:07   ` tom fogal
2008-06-27 23:03     ` Jakub Narebski
2008-06-29  3:13     ` Ian Hilt
2008-06-27 15:15   ` Mircea Bardac

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