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Re: Mercurial over Git no success

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KFKevin P. Fleming <kpfleming@digium.com>
Date
Feb 19, 2011, 13:06 UTC
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On 02/14/2011 05:19 PM, Jon Seymour wrote:
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>  From the INSTALL file:
>
>   - Git is reasonably self-sufficient, but does depend on a few external
>     programs and libraries.  Git can be used without most of them by adding
>     the approriate "NO_<LIBRARY>=YesPlease" to the make command line or
>     config.mak file.
>
>          - "zlib", the compression library. Git won't build without it.
>
>         ...

It would be quite appropriate then for git's configure script to *fail* if zlib and zlib headers are not present. The OP would have known what was wrong much earlier (and likely with a more useful error message) if that had happened.

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