Re: Unable to install git-2.43.0 from source on macOS Big Sur 11.7.10

From: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Date: Dec 18, 2023, 01:02 UTC
Message-ID: <CAPig+cTEmiQzD7D7qEKDsyGf+08AtNQzy=GfPZDrRtM2ytKnUw@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sun, Dec 17, 2023 at 5:54 PM Jonathan Abrams <jonathansabrams@outlook.com> wrote:

> I am trying to install git-2.43.0 from source on macOS Big Sur 11.7.10.  I have Xcode 13.2.1 installed.  I have read https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/INSTALL.
>
> The command that will not complete successfully is sudo make all doc.  The Terminal output before the error is as follows.

What steps did you take to build the project? Did you simply use `make all` alone, or did you run `configure` first? Generally speaking, running `configure` should be unnecessary on most platforms.

> Undefined symbols for architecture x86_64:
>   "_libiconv", referenced from:
>       _precompose_utf8_readdir in libgit.a(precompose_utf8.o)
>       _reencode_string_iconv in libgit.a(utf8.o)

It looks like it's not linking against `libiconv`. Aside from answering the above question (and reporting the contents of "config.mak.autogen" if you did run `configure`), you can also run make as:

    make V=1 all

to see the actual command it's running at the point of failure. If you paste that command, then we can find out whether or not it's trying to link against `libiconv`.