Re: [Outreachy]Introduction and Problem while installing Git

From: Dorcas Litunya <anonolitunya@gmail.com>
Date: Oct 12, 2023, 17:13 UTC
Message-ID: <ZSgpJgnaieu6kO0+@dorcaslitunya-virtual-machine>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqmswnhkxt.fsf@gitster.g>

On Thu, Oct 12, 2023 at 09:20:14AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> Benson Muite <benson_muite@emailplus.org> writes:
> 
> > On 10/12/23 09:57, Dorcas Litunya wrote:
> >> Hello everyone,
> >> My name is Dorcas Litunya. I am excited to contribute to the git
> >> community, I am a first time contributor through the Outreachy program.
> >> I am excited to learn and grow through this project. I am currently
> >> installing Git and I have been faced with this error once I run the make
> >> command:
> >> In file included from http.c:2:
> >> git-curl-compat.h:3:10: fatal error: curl/curl.h: No such file or directory
> >>     3 | #include <curl/curl.h>
> >>       |          ^~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > You will need to have curl libraries and development headers.
> > https://curl.se/libcurl/
> > You maybe able to get these from a package manager, for example on Ubuntu
> > sudo apt-get install curl-dev
> > Fedora
> > sudo dnf install libcurl-devel
> 
> Thanks for helping.  Perhaps reading the INSTALL file at the top of
> the working tree would worth the time?

Thanks Junio. I did follow it eventually. I got stuck here since the instructions to install some libraries was at the towards the middle and end of the INSTALL file while the instruction to run the make command was at the top of the file, and it seemed a bit easy as the file had just said "it should work normally"(without pointing out the libraries needed) was what kinda got me lost, but I eventually found my solutions as I read through the doc. But yes,I will now try to read and search entire docs as all the good stuff might be at the bottom. :-)