Re: Building 1.6.2-rc2 in Cygwin

From: Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@gmail.com>
Date: Feb 27, 2009, 12:37 UTC
Message-ID: <be6fef0d0902270437y14b3eb6kdf061109df19a77e@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <c115fd3c0902260723o4d475df5yecc9ff23c55c7af4@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 11:23 PM, Tim Visher <tim.visher@gmail.com> wrote:

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>    $ make
>        CC fast-import.o
>    In file included from builtin.h:4,
>                     from fast-import.c:142:
>    git-compat-util.h:100:19: iconv.h: No such file or directory
>    make: *** [fast-import.o] Error 1

Did you try installing libiconv library? It contains that particular header file.

Whenever I make on cygwin and it chokes, I try searching cygwin's package contents:

http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-grep.cgi?grep=file.h

You might find this handy too.

> Second, I built and installed 1.6.2-rc2 and it still is claiming a
> --version rc1.  I'm not sure if this is systemic or not, and obviously
> it would be bad if it was just me as it means I'm doing something
> wrong.

Hmm, you could try

$ make install prefix=/usr

By default, git installs into your home directory.

-- 
Cheers,
Ray Chuan