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Re: Problems building git with custom curl installation

From
Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date
Mar 7, 2008, 13:40 UTC
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Ian Hinder <hinder@Gravity.PSU.Edu> writes:
> I suggest that the following are bugs:
> 3. The use of the makefile option NO_R_TO_GCC_LINKER is not
> automatically determined - perhaps an autoconf test could be written
> for it?  All the machines I have tried give an error if you try to
> give gcc a -R option, and gcc is being used as the linker.
I try to contribute to configure script, but I simply don't know how
robustly and in standard way to test if linker (gcc) accepts '-R'
option. Additionalyy, I don't have system where this is needed (it
fails), so I don't have a way to test if it works correctly.
 
> 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 guess that this bug is result of 3.
-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland
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  2. Stephen SinclairMar 7, 2008
  3. Johannes SchindelinMar 7, 2008
  4. Jakub NarebskiMar 7, 2008

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