# configure doesn't test all

2 messages from 2022-04-26 to 2022-04-26. Participants: Guy Maurel, Johannes Sixt.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/57797

## Guy Maurel, 2022-04-26 15:21

Subject: configure doesn't test all
Message-ID: <c14e6883-57f1-ab66-7453-830dad9f6eb7@maurel.de>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/c14e6883-57f1-ab66-7453-830dad9f6eb7%40maurel.de

```
Hello!

./configure
make
GIT_VERSION = 2.36.0
     * new build flags
     CC fuzz-commit-graph.o
In file included from commit-graph.h:4,
                  from fuzz-commit-graph.c:1:
git-compat-util.h:1427:10: fatal error: zlib.h

Is missing on my Mint-system, BUT configure doesn't complain about this.

-- 
Guy Maurel
Sebastian-Fischer-Weg 13
89077 Ulm/Germany

```

## Johannes Sixt, 2022-04-26 16:57

Subject: Re: configure doesn't test all
Message-ID: <c0c038bf-e7c4-e534-656e-0842e95a9ae6@kdbg.org>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/c0c038bf-e7c4-e534-656e-0842e95a9ae6%40kdbg.org
In-Reply-To: <c14e6883-57f1-ab66-7453-830dad9f6eb7@maurel.de>

```
Am 26.04.22 um 17:21 schrieb Guy Maurel:
> ./configure
> make
> GIT_VERSION = 2.36.0
>     * new build flags
>     CC fuzz-commit-graph.o
> In file included from commit-graph.h:4,
>                  from fuzz-commit-graph.c:1:
> git-compat-util.h:1427:10: fatal error: zlib.h
> 
> Is missing on my Mint-system, BUT configure doesn't complain about this.

Unless you have a special configuration needs, your best bet to compile
on Linux is to just run

   make

Precede this with

   rm -f config.mak.autogen

if you have already run ./configure.

That doesn't liberate you from installing missing development packages,
though, and you'll see the same error as above, also with no advance
warning.

-- Hannes

```
