Re: How to force configure script to use curl ?

From: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>
Date: Feb 13, 2020, 10:07 UTC
Message-ID: <CAP8UFD3Xi_56qqiDstquHZ9i=RDF_ka7NJMniiw5cvcrV90oLA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <A0910AA2-D24B-4DF5-8D39-8E2D8B56955B@gmail.com>

Hi,

On Wed, Feb 12, 2020 at 11:09 PM Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com> wrote:

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> I was trying to build Git yesterday on a Ubuntu 14 machine that was missing the package "libcurl4-gnutls-dev" necessary to build the http(s) remote helper [1].
>
> Doing just
>
>     ./configure
>     make
>
> built Git without support for the http remote helper, as expected.
>
> However, doing
>
>     ./configure --with-curl
>     make
>
> did the same; it did not result in an error saying that the curl headers could not be found (which I expected).
>
> Is there a way to force the configure script to error out if it does not find curl (or any one of the optional dependencies that I happen to need for my build?)

Using the configure script is not needed. Building Git using just a make command can work.

You might want to try it and see if it fails as you expect when libcurl4-gnutls-dev is not installed.

In the top level Makefile you can see all the variables that can be set to customize the build.

These days the configure infrastructure is not as well maintained as the Makefile.

Best, Christian.