From: Kevin P. Fleming <kpfleming@digium.com>
Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2011 13:06:25 GMT
Subject: Re: Mercurial over Git no success
Message-ID: <4D5FC051.3090505@digium.com>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimi8MU3VYug6orouHS7GmBJ-Pf27_zj_KO0Sj6c@mail.gmail.com>

On 02/14/2011 05:19 PM, Jon Seymour wrote:
>  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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