Building 1.6.2-rc2 in Cygwin

From: Tim Visher <tim.visher@gmail.com>
Date: Feb 26, 2009, 15:23 UTC
Message-ID: <c115fd3c0902260723o4d475df5yecc9ff23c55c7af4@mail.gmail.com>

Hello Everyone,

This is somewhat related to my previous question about `configure` ignoring `--XXdir=` options but it's different enough that I think it warrants a new thread.

The reason I'm using `configure` at all is that when I simply do a `make` without a `make configure; ./configure` first, it fails with a message like:

    $ 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

Once I configure, even without any options, it builds fine and I can get my man pages (although I have to install them by hand). I assume this has something to do with cygwin's locations for header files and such, but I have no real idea. The first part of my question, then would be what the issue is that I'm encountering when attempting to build git in Cygwin?

My eventual goal is to have git installed with man, info, and html pages, into my (and my fellow developers') personal bin, man, info, and html directories at ~/x. It appeared that I could do that with ./configure but per the response I got earlier, this doesn't seem to be the case.

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.

Thoughts?

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