{"thread":{"id":"26504","subject":"Mercurial over Git no success","startedAt":"2011-02-14T21:01:45Z","lastAt":"2011-02-19T13:06:25Z","messageCount":7,"participants":["david@davidwbrown.name","knittl","PICCA Frédéric-Emmanuel","Manuel Doninger","Jon Seymour","Gabriel Filion","Kevin P. Fleming"],"isPatch":false,"patchVersion":null,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"161106","messageId":"1297717305.19327@davidwbrown.name","threadId":"26504","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"Mercurial over Git no success","fromName":"","fromEmail":"david@davidwbrown.name","sentAt":"2011-02-14T21:01:45Z","receivedAt":"2011-02-14T21:01:45Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"david@davidwbrown.name","avatar":"https://gravatar.com/avatar/c9f1df953200b4f5fda054b555a876f9297b561df38184edef6473771e4e5729?d=mp&s=160"},"body":"Hello Gitters, long ago when first starting the project I'm currently running at my company I looked around for a VCS/SCM that would be anywhere better than: CVS/SVN. At first I looked at Git but could not get a version to run on my Ubuntu box. So, I had to settle for Hg. Now, that I'm several months into the web app dev I'm responsible for the hired help has convinced me to switch to Git. Now, I'm back at the same old problem I had months ago that forced me to give up on using Git. Unlike a lot of Unix/Linux based software the usual:\n\n./configure\nmake\nmake install\n\nDoes not work for building Git on my local Ubuntu box (10.10 BTW). Some non-innocuous error condition as follows:\n\ncannot find zlib.h\n\nPls advise. David.\n"},{"id":"161111","messageId":"606CC410B038E34CB97646A32D0EC0BF03888300@venusbis.synchrotron-soleil.fr","threadId":"26504","inReplyTo":"1297717305.19327@davidwbrown.name","subject":"RE: Mercurial over Git no success","fromName":"PICCA Frédéric-Emmanuel","fromEmail":"frederic-emmanuel.picca@synchrotron-soleil.fr","sentAt":"2011-02-14T21:24:42Z","receivedAt":"2011-02-14T21:24:42Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"frederic-emmanuel.picca@synchrotron-soleil.fr","avatar":null},"body":"apt-get install git-core git-gui gitk\n\nwould be a good starting point\n\nSee you\n\nFrederic\n\n\n-----Original Message-----\nFrom: git-owner@vger.kernel.org on behalf of david@davidwbrown.name\nSent: Mon 2/14/2011 10:01 PM\nTo: git@vger.kernel.org\nSubject: Mercurial over Git no success\n \nHello Gitters, long ago when first starting the project I'm currently running at my company I looked around for a VCS/SCM that would be anywhere better than: CVS/SVN. At first I looked at Git but could not get a version to run on my Ubuntu box. So, I had to settle for Hg. Now, that I'm several months into the web app dev I'm responsible for the hired help has convinced me to switch to Git. Now, I'm back at the same old problem I had months ago that forced me to give up on using Git. Unlike a lot of Unix/Linux based software the usual:\n\n./configure\nmake\nmake install\n\nDoes not work for building Git on my local Ubuntu box (10.10 BTW). Some non-innocuous error condition as follows:\n\ncannot find zlib.h\n\nPls advise. David.\n"},{"id":"161108","messageId":"AANLkTimWfC8UqYVNjr0MiE1QE+W0fVhZYi3wfxP1e29t@mail.gmail.com","threadId":"26504","inReplyTo":"1297717305.19327@davidwbrown.name","subject":"Re: Mercurial over Git no success","fromName":"knittl","fromEmail":"knittl89@googlemail.com","sentAt":"2011-02-14T21:26:39Z","receivedAt":"2011-02-14T21:26:39Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"knittl89@googlemail.com","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/2149217?v=4"},"body":"On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 10:01 PM, wrote:\n> [...]\n>\n> ./configure\n> make\n> make install\n>\n> Does not work for building Git on my local Ubuntu box (10.10 BTW). Some non-innocuous error condition as follows:\n\nwhy not simply install the version of git that comes with ubuntu?\n`sudo apt-get install git` should do the trick ...\n\n> cannot find zlib.h\n\nthere's the problem. the zlib compression libraries are missing on\nyour system. you'd have to install them first: `sudo apt-get install\nzlib1g-dev`, but you are probably missing some more libraries\nnecessary to compile git\n\nhope that helps,\ndaniel\n\n\n-- \ntyped with http://neo-layout.org\nmyFtPhp -- visit http://myftphp.sf.net -- v. 0.4.7 released!\n"},{"id":"161114","messageId":"AANLkTinro_sSV52aZATAPFAm1SLRq8i4Q1kA2W+wqqH3@mail.gmail.com","threadId":"26504","inReplyTo":"1297717305.19327@davidwbrown.name","subject":"Re: Mercurial over Git no success","fromName":"Manuel Doninger","fromEmail":"manuel.doninger@googlemail.com","sentAt":"2011-02-14T21:50:09Z","receivedAt":"2011-02-14T21:50:09Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"manuel.doninger@googlemail.com","avatar":"https://gravatar.com/avatar/8bfe7a32dcd61ea071cdf4fc757b01896114d6e9bad681ef98595664a18ede98?d=mp&s=160"},"body":"According to the Install-section in the Pro Git book, you have to\ninstall some other libraries. See http://progit.org/book/ch1-4.html\n\nManuel\n\nOn Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 22:01, wrote:\n> Hello Gitters, long ago when first starting the project I'm currently running at my company I looked around for a VCS/SCM that would be anywhere better than: CVS/SVN. At first I looked at Git but could not get a version to run on my Ubuntu box. So, I had to settle for Hg. Now, that I'm several months into the web app dev I'm responsible for the hired help has convinced me to switch to Git. Now, I'm back at the same old problem I had months ago that forced me to give up on using Git. Unlike a lot of Unix/Linux based software the usual:\n>\n> ./configure\n> make\n> make install\n>\n> Does not work for building Git on my local Ubuntu box (10.10 BTW). Some non-innocuous error condition as follows:\n>\n> cannot find zlib.h\n>\n> Pls advise. David.\n>\n"},{"id":"161130","messageId":"AANLkTimi8MU3VYug6orouHS7GmBJ-Pf27_zj_KO0Sj6c@mail.gmail.com","threadId":"26504","inReplyTo":"AANLkTinro_sSV52aZATAPFAm1SLRq8i4Q1kA2W+wqqH3@mail.gmail.com","subject":"Re: Mercurial over Git no success","fromName":"Jon Seymour","fromEmail":"jon.seymour@gmail.com","sentAt":"2011-02-14T23:19:59Z","receivedAt":"2011-02-14T23:19:59Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"jon.seymour@gmail.com","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/207131?v=4"},"body":"From the INSTALL file:\n\n - Git is reasonably self-sufficient, but does depend on a few external\n programs and libraries. Git can be used without most of them by adding\n the approriate \"NO_=YesPlease\" to the make command line or\n config.mak file.\n\n - \"zlib\", the compression library. Git won't build without it.\n\n ...\n\nPer suggestions already made, on ubuntu apt-cache search and apt-cache\nget are your friends.\n\njon.\n\nOn Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 8:50 AM, Manuel Doninger\n wrote:\n> According to the Install-section in the Pro Git book, you have to\n> install some other libraries. See http://progit.org/book/ch1-4.html\n>\n> Manuel\n>\n> On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 22:01,   wrote:\n>> Hello Gitters, long ago when first starting the project I'm currently running at my company I looked around for a VCS/SCM that would be anywhere better than: CVS/SVN. At first I looked at Git but could not get a version to run on my Ubuntu box. So, I had to settle for Hg. Now, that I'm several months into the web app dev I'm responsible for the hired help has convinced me to switch to Git. Now, I'm back at the same old problem I had months ago that forced me to give up on using Git. Unlike a lot of Unix/Linux based software the usual:\n>>\n>> ./configure\n>> make\n>> make install\n>>\n>> Does not work for building Git on my local Ubuntu box (10.10 BTW). Some non-innocuous error condition as follows:\n>>\n>> cannot find zlib.h\n>>\n>> Pls advise. David.\n>>\n> --\n> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line \"unsubscribe git\" in\n> the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org\n> More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html\n>\n"},{"id":"161138","messageId":"4D59CDE2.1060903@gmail.com","threadId":"26504","inReplyTo":"AANLkTimWfC8UqYVNjr0MiE1QE+W0fVhZYi3wfxP1e29t@mail.gmail.com","subject":"Re: Mercurial over Git no success","fromName":"Gabriel Filion","fromEmail":"lelutin@gmail.com","sentAt":"2011-02-15T00:50:42Z","receivedAt":"2011-02-15T00:50:42Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"lelutin@gmail.com","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/108728?v=4"},"body":"On 11-02-14 04:26 PM, knittl wrote:\n> On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 10:01 PM, wrote:\n>> > [...]\n>> >\n>> > ./configure\n>> > make\n>> > make install\n>> >\n>> > Does not work for building Git on my local Ubuntu box (10.10 BTW). Some non-innocuous error condition as follows:\n> why not simply install the version of git that comes with ubuntu?\n> `sudo apt-get install git` should do the trick ...\n> \n\nIf you'd like to use git's latest release, before it gets included into\nan Ubuntu release, you can use this PPA:\n\nhttps://launchpad.net/~git-core/+archive/ppa\n\nAdd it with the following command:\n\nsudo add-apt-repository ppa:git-core/ppa\n\nThen, sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get install git\n\n-- \nGabriel Filion\n"},{"id":"161605","messageId":"4D5FC051.3090505@digium.com","threadId":"26504","inReplyTo":"AANLkTimi8MU3VYug6orouHS7GmBJ-Pf27_zj_KO0Sj6c@mail.gmail.com","subject":"Re: Mercurial over Git no success","fromName":"Kevin P. Fleming","fromEmail":"kpfleming@digium.com","sentAt":"2011-02-19T13:06:25Z","receivedAt":"2011-02-19T13:06:25Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"kpfleming@digium.com","avatar":null},"body":"On 02/14/2011 05:19 PM, Jon Seymour wrote:\n> From the INSTALL file:\n>\n> - Git is reasonably self-sufficient, but does depend on a few external\n> programs and libraries. Git can be used without most of them by adding\n> the approriate \"NO_=YesPlease\" to the make command line or\n> config.mak file.\n>\n> - \"zlib\", the compression library. Git won't build without it.\n>\n> ...\n\nIt would be quite appropriate then for git's configure script to *fail* \nif zlib and zlib headers are not present. The OP would have known what \nwas wrong much earlier (and likely with a more useful error message) if \nthat had happened.\n\n-- \nKevin P. Fleming\nDigium, Inc. | Director of Software Technologies\n445 Jan Davis Drive NW - Huntsville, AL 35806 - USA\nskype: kpfleming | jabber: kfleming@digium.com\nCheck us out at www.digium.com & www.asterisk.org\n"}]}