Re: Chicken/egg problem building from a 'git clone'

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Feb 6, 2009, 11:34 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0902061232000.7377@intel-tinevez-2-302>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0902052238510.4851-100000@localhost.localdomain>

Hi,

On Thu, 5 Feb 2009, Joi Ellis wrote:

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> On Fri, 6 Feb 2009, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 6 Feb 2009, Joi Ellis wrote:
> > 
> > > "make all" fails becuase my libaries are old:
> > > 
> > >     LINK git-fast-import
> > > fast-import.o: In function `store_object':
> > > /usr/local/src/git/git/fast-import.c:1086: undefined reference to `deflateBound'
> > > /usr/local/src/git/git/fast-import.c:1109: undefined reference to `deflateBound'
> > 
> > You need to install a newer libz.  (And this is not a chicken & egg 
> > problem.)
> 
> Yes, this *is* a chicken & egg problem.

No it is _not_.

A chicken and egg problem would be if your problem would go away if Git compiled cleanly. But it does not.

> As I said in my original post, git will build on this machine if I have 
> a configure script to run first.  The configure script explicitly checks 
> for the version of libz and sets a DEFINE appropriately.

So why don't you DEFINE the thing explicitely? From reading the Makefile, it appears as if

	$ make NO_DEFLATE_BOUND=YesPlease

should make it compile. Of course, the documentation in the first part of the Makefile could be better, maybe you have suggestions?

Hth, Dscho