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

From: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Date: Feb 6, 2009, 19:06 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.1.00.0902061357520.19665@iabervon.org>
In-Reply-To: <loom.20090206T035001-370@post.gmane.org>

On Fri, 6 Feb 2009, Joi Ellis wrote:

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> I have an elderly laptop.  I can build and install git using a tarball.  I 
> original installed git 1.6.0.  This evening I noticed 1.6.1 was availble, and I 
> decided to try building from the git repository using 'git clone' as described 
> in the git home page.   And to jump ahead of myself, I want to point out that 
> 1.6.1 will build from the tarball.  However...
> 
> The workspace I get using 'git clone' does not provide a configure file.  And 
> because my laptop isn't running a bleeding edge distribution, my build tools 
> are older than you'd expect, so...
> 
> "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'

What zlib version do you have? If your libraries are old enough, git's cache.h header file should effectively enable NO_DEFLATE_BOUND. Maybe you have skew between your header files and the libraries the linker finds by default? Or maybe we should consider any zlib without a version in the header file old enough not to have deflateBound()?

	-Daniel
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