Building GIT on older systems.

From: Tim Schumacher <schumact@gmail.com>
Date: Feb 29, 2012, 20:22 UTC
Message-ID: <CAFqtsHd=b=Ey8j1zTCC4-fut7rno3daQ2Q3HMs3k2SHFvE4dSQ@mail.gmail.com>
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Hi All,

After a long battle trying to get git to compile on my dev boxes I am seeking help from the gurus... I have an old system, redhat linux 7.3, with a 2.4.18 kernel with gcc 2.96 toolchain. Unfortuneatly, upgrading is not currently an option.

I have figured out so far that I can run the command

make NO_NSEC=true

to get past the time struct compile error.

After that, I was able to hand edit the Makefile to set

BASIC_LDFLAGS = -ldl

so linking the git-imap-send program succeeds (was failing to link against this library for some reason...). I tried to run configure with these options, but it did not seem to take, only setting NO_NSEC=true to the make command line seems to work.

Anyway, now I get to the point in the build where it goes into the perl subdir and fails with:

   SUBDIR perl
/bin/sh: -c: line 3: syntax error near unexpected token
`"s<\Q++LOCALEDIR++\E></'
/bin/sh: -c: line 3: `        -e "pm_to_blib({qw{Git/I18N.pm
blib/lib/Git/I18N.pm private-Error.pm blib/lib/Error.pm Git.pm
blib/lib/Git.pm}},'blib/lib/auto','/usr/bin/perl -pe
"s<\Q++LOCALEDIR++\E></usr/local/git-1.7.9.2/share/locale>"')"'
make[2]: *** [pm_to_blib] Error 2
make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
make: *** [all] Error 2

A couple questions I have so far: (1) how can I make make output the actual command it is executing so I can try to debug things more quickly? (2) how can I configure the Makefile to automatically set -ldl as well as the NO_NSEC flag? (3) My perl -v output: This is perl, v5.6.1 built for i386-linux. Is this sufficient?

Any help is greatly appreciated!

Thanks, Tim