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Unable to make git with https support

Subject: Unable to make git with https support

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5 messages between Mar 7, 2012 and Mar 8, 2012.

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Nate Parsons· Mar 7, 2012, 19:52 UTC · lore

I'm trying to make git for myself, but can't seem to get https working. This is what I did to make it:

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> wget http://git-core.googlecode.com/files/git-1.7.9.3.tar.gz
> tar -xf git-1.7.9.3.tar.gz
> cd git-1.7.9.3.tar.gz
> ./configure --with-curl --prefix=$HOME
> make
> make install

In a new shell

> git clone https://github.com/git/git.git

Cloning into 'git'... fatal: Unable to find remote helper for 'https'

But my machine does have curl, and that curl can access https urls

> which curl

/usr/bin/curl

> curl --version

curl 7.19.0 (x86_64-suse-linux-gnu) libcurl/7.19.0 OpenSSL/0.9.8h
zlib/1.2.3 libidn/1.10
Protocols: tftp ftp telnet dict ldap http file https ftps
Features: GSS-Negotiate IDN IPv6 Largefile NTLM SSL libz

> curl https://github.com/git/git.git

<GitHub 404 page, no https error message>

Thanks, Nate

Thomas Rast· Mar 7, 2012, 19:57 UTC · re: Nate Parsons · lore

Re: Unable to make git with https support

Nate Parsons <parsons.nate@gmail.com> writes:

>> ./configure --with-curl --prefix=$HOME

What does it say when configuring libcurl? Are there any errors? What if you use the Makefile directly (it's our main build method)?

> But my machine does have curl, and that curl can access https urls

Have you also installed libcurl-devel (or whatever the package might be called, but it seems you are also using opensuse)?

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Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch

Nate Parsons· Mar 7, 2012, 22:30 UTC · re: Thomas Rast · lore

Re: Unable to make git with https support

On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 2:57 PM, Thomas Rast <trast@inf.ethz.ch> wrote:

> Have you also installed libcurl-devel (or whatever the package might be
> called, but it seems you are also using opensuse)?

This is the problem, thanks. I only have curl and libcurl4 installed, and I was hoping to not install any new packages. So I downloaded curl and openssl and tried to make those. I was able to build openssl, but I was not able to build curl off of that (skipping curl's ./configure step doesn't seem like an option).

This isn't curl's mailing list, so if you don't want to help me make curl, I understand (and have a workaround that might end up being a better solution for what I'm trying to do anyways)

Thomas Rast· Mar 8, 2012, 08:19 UTC · re: Nate Parsons · lore

Re: Unable to make git with https support

Nate Parsons <parsons.nate@gmail.com> writes:

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> On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 2:57 PM, Thomas Rast <trast@inf.ethz.ch> wrote:
>> Have you also installed libcurl-devel (or whatever the package might be
>> called, but it seems you are also using opensuse)?
>
> This is the problem, thanks. I only have curl and libcurl4 installed,
> and I was hoping to not install any new packages.

Which is to say, you either have a totally crazy aversion against installing (headers-only, no less) packages, or you have a hidden reason why you don't want to do that and you're not telling us.

Meh.

-- 
Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch

Junio C Hamano· Mar 7, 2012, 20:05 UTC · re: Nate Parsons · lore

Re: Unable to make git with https support

Nate Parsons <parsons.nate@gmail.com> writes:

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> I'm trying to make git for myself, but can't seem to get https
> working. This is what I did to make it:
>
>> wget http://git-core.googlecode.com/files/git-1.7.9.3.tar.gz
>> tar -xf git-1.7.9.3.tar.gz
>> cd git-1.7.9.3.tar.gz
>> ./configure --with-curl --prefix=$HOME
>> make
>> make install

I wonder if omitting the whole "configure" thing (remove config.mak.autogen) and doing

    $ make
    $ make install

may work for you better?