Re: Compiling git-snapshot-20069831

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Aug 31, 2006, 15:28 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0608311727010.28360@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <44F6F478.1070708@users.sourceforge.net>

Hi,

On Thu, 31 Aug 2006, Jorma Karvonen wrote:

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> Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > since you do have a recent snapshot, why not try ./configure, as Pasky
> > suggested?
> > 
> > BTW I cannot read Finnish, but it probably says that you do not have curl
> > installed. configure would detect that, and automatically set NO_CURL=1.
> > 
> > Ciao,
> > Dscho
> > 
> > 
> >   
> Sorry,
> 
> but I have not any git installed and there is no configure file in installing
> directory.

Ooops. As mentioned elsewhere, try "make configure" first.

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> When I tested 
> make NEEDS_LIBICONV=1 NO_CURL=1
> 
> the make succeeded but when trying make install I got error messages shown in
> the enclosed file.

You forgot to say "NEEDS_LIBICONV=1 NO_CURL=1" with the "make install":

	make NEEDS_LIBICONV=1 NO_CURL=1 install

This would not be necessary with ./configure, since it writes these settings into a file, which is read by "make".

Ciao, Dscho