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Re: Problems building git with custom curl installation

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Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date
Mar 7, 2008, 02:17 UTC
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Hi,
On Thu, 6 Mar 2008, Stephen Sinclair wrote:
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> On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 7:39 PM, Ian Hinder <hinder@gravity.psu.edu> wrote:
> [snip]
> >  1. Configure: Specifying the curl location leads to output that
> >  indicates that curl was not correctly located, even though a
> >  subsequent make finds it successfully and includes it in the build.
> 
> I'd just like to add that configure also doesn't detect and warn about
> a missing gettext package, which became evident to me today when I
> tried compiling it on a newly installed machine.  The configure is
> successful, but the build fails.
You probably forgot to include the relevant output.

But I guess I know it already: msgfmt ist not found. Alas, there are patches underway to fix that already.

Hth, Dscho

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