From: Mircea Bardac <dev@mircea.bardac.net>
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 15:15:31 GMT
Subject: Re: BUG (v1.5.6.1): ./configure missing check for zlib.h
Message-ID: <48650413.2080001@mircea.bardac.net>
In-Reply-To: <m3prq3hr6n.fsf@localhost.localdomain>

Jakub Narebski wrote:
> 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...

> [...]
>>
>> (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!

Well, as far as I know, if a program depends on any external headers, 
they should *all* be checked, not only "those that can be skipped by 
defining some macro" (I personally do not know which are these).

Mircea

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