Re: Unable to build git on Lion - missing config.h from Perl header files

From: Sorin Sbarnea <sorin.sbarnea@gmail.com>
Date: Aug 19, 2011, 21:43 UTC
Message-ID: <CAGDPfJoG_ksfL5vqzGWe5jqW646CKB=Qxm9_G5d=ZHMWfixweA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <9B588F2F-ACDF-4DA7-BE30-E075CA729731@gmail.com>

This was a clean-new Lion install, not an upgrade. I just installed Xcode on alternate location /Developer41 instead of /Developer

Yes, I did a `make clean` but it has no effect.

The problem is that on Lion there is no config.h in the perl directory, only a perl.h file.

-- 
Sorin Sbarnea

On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 21:58, David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Aug 19, 2011, at 9:31 AM, Sorin Sbarnea <sorin.sbarnea@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I came across the following problem while trying to build git (1.7.6) on Lion
>> https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/issues/7091
>>
>> The only files existing in
>> /System/Library/Perl/5.12/darwin-thread-multi-2level/CORE/ are
>> libperl.dylib andperl.h.
>>
>> make[2]: *** No rule to make target
>> `/System/Library/Perl/5.12/darwin-thread-multi-2level/CORE/config.h',
>> needed by `perl.mak'.  Stop.
>> make[1]: *** [instlibdir] Error 2
>>
>> If possible it would be a good idea to continue the discussion on
>> homebrew bug tracker
>>
>> Thanks,
>> --
>> Sorin Sbarnea
>
> Did you upgrade to lion from a system where you were building previously? Did you try "make clean"?
>
> --
>                                        David