# Problems building git with custom curl installation 4 messages from 2008-03-07 to 2008-03-07. Participants: Ian Hinder, Stephen Sinclair, Johannes Schindelin, Jakub Narebski. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/12552 ## Ian Hinder, 2008-03-07 00:39 Subject: Problems building git with custom curl installation Message-ID: <47D08EA7.8000607@gravity.psu.edu> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/47D08EA7.8000607%40gravity.psu.edu ``` Hi, I have had some problems building git on a machine which does not have the distro development packages for Curl installed. I have installed it from source, but there are some issues. >From a clean download of git-1.5.4, I do: ./configure --prefix=/home/ian/software/git-1.5.4 --with-curl=/home/ian/software/curl-7.18.0 I get checking for curl_global_init in -lcurl... no even though curl has been installed in /home/ian/software/curl-7.18.0 I do "make", and get /bin/sh: curl-config: command not found but the make proceeds anyway. When linking, I get warnings cc: unrecognized option '-R/usr/center/atlas1/numrel/software/curl-7.18.0/lib' and "ldd git" gives libcurl.so.4 => not found If I do NO_R_TO_GCC_LINKER=yes make then things seem to work perfectly, and the rpath to curl is set in the git executable. In the course of debugging this problem, I also found that LDFLAGS were not being passed from the configure command line to the makefile. I suggest that the following are bugs: 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. 2. Make: an error appears indicating that curl-config is not found, which suggests that curl will not be used successfully, even though it works fine. It must not be looking for curl-config in the right place, and it doesn't even seem to be necessary. 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. 4. LDFLAGS is not passed from the configure command line to the makefile. Modifying config.mak.in to contain the line LDFLAGS = @LDFLAGS@ might be the appropriate fix. -- Ian Hinder hinder@gravity.psu.edu http://www.gravity.psu.edu/~hinder ``` ## Stephen Sinclair, 2008-03-07 01:37 Subject: Re: Problems building git with custom curl installation Message-ID: <9b3e2dc20803061737l1832fb82g6532808b58a12ab5@mail.gmail.com> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/9b3e2dc20803061737l1832fb82g6532808b58a12ab5%40mail.gmail.com In-Reply-To: <47D08EA7.8000607@gravity.psu.edu> ``` On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 7:39 PM, Ian Hinder 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. Steve ``` ## Johannes Schindelin, 2008-03-07 02:17 Subject: Re: Problems building git with custom curl installation Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/alpine.LSU.1.00.0803070317010.19395%40racer.site In-Reply-To: <9b3e2dc20803061737l1832fb82g6532808b58a12ab5@mail.gmail.com> ``` Hi, On Thu, 6 Mar 2008, Stephen Sinclair wrote: > On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 7:39 PM, Ian Hinder 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 ``` ## Jakub Narebski, 2008-03-07 13:40 Subject: Re: Problems building git with custom curl installation Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/m3ejamhctv.fsf%40localhost.localdomain In-Reply-To: <47D08EA7.8000607@gravity.psu.edu> ``` Ian Hinder 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 ShadeHawk on #git ```