Re: git 2.1.0: make fails

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Sep 9, 2014, 22:42 UTC
Message-ID: <20140909224201.GE14029@peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <540F643A.60207@verizon.net>

On Tue, Sep 09, 2014 at 04:34:02PM -0400, Gerry Reno wrote:

> Downloaded the git-2.1.0.tar.gz  tarball.
> 
> Cannot build git 2.1.0:

Weird. It works fine for me on Debian unstable. What platform are you on?

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>     cc  -g -O2 -Wall -I. -DHAVE_ALLOCA_H  -DHAVE_PATHS_H -DHAVE_DEV_TTY -DHAVE_CLOCK_GETTIME
>     -DSHA1_HEADER='<openssl/sha.h>'  -DNO_STRLCPY -DNO_MKSTEMPS -DSHELL_PATH='"/bin/sh"' -o git-credential-store  
>     credential-store.o libgit.a xdiff/lib.a  -lz  -lcrypto -lpthread -lrt
>     collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
>     make: *** [git-credential-store] Error 1

So the linker failed, but it didn't actually tell us why. That's not much to go on. Are you sure there was no other output on stderr?

I assume the reason it broke on git-credential-store is just because it is the first thing we try to link. What does:

  make V=1 prefix=/usr/local git

output? Does it successfully link "git"?

-Peff