# Error compiling git

3 messages from 2007-08-19 to 2007-08-19. Participants: Anupam Srivastava.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/9577

## Anupam Srivastava, 2007-08-19 20:40

Subject: Error compiling git
Message-ID: <46C8AAC6.4060101@itt.uni-stuttgart.de>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/46C8AAC6.4060101%40itt.uni-stuttgart.de

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Hello all!

I am trying to compile git. The catch is that my zlib is installed in 
non-standard directory, namely: /tmp/dont.delete/fakeroot

Here are my environment varialbes:
LDFLAGS=-L/tmp/dont.delete/fakeroot/lib
LD_RUN_PATH="/tmp/dont.delete/fakeroot/lib
CC="ccache cc -o3"

but after running make, the compilation stops ate linking with this error:
<snip>
     AR xdiff/lib.a
     LINK git-convert-objects
/usr/lib64/gcc/x86_64-suse-linux/4.1.2/../../../../x86_64-suse-linux/bin/ld: 
skipping incompatible /usr/lib/libz.so when searching for -lz
/usr/lib64/gcc/x86_64-suse-linux/4.1.2/../../../../x86_64-suse-linux/bin/ld: 
skipping incompatible /usr/lib/libz.a when searching for -lz
/usr/lib64/gcc/x86_64-suse-linux/4.1.2/../../../../x86_64-suse-linux/bin/ld: 
cannot find -lz
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [git-convert-objects] Error 1
</snip>
Which to my understating means that it is not even trying to find zlib 
in /tmp/dont.delete/fakeroot

My way of compiling is:
make configure
./configure --cache-file=config.cache --prefix=/tmp/dont.delete/fakeroot
make

In configure.log I do get LDFLAGS='-L/tmp/dont.delete/fakeroot/lib 
-L/tmp/dont.delete/fakeroot/lib64 -L/usr/stud/srivasta/lib'

This zlib is working fine when I compile other stuff which needs zlib.

Any idea if is a configure problem of make

Anupam

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## Anupam Srivastava, 2007-08-19 21:18

Subject: Re: Error compiling git
Message-ID: <46C8B39B.6060603@itt.uni-stuttgart.de>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/46C8B39B.6060603%40itt.uni-stuttgart.de
In-Reply-To: <46C8AAC6.4060101@itt.uni-stuttgart.de>

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Anupam Srivastava wrote:
> Hello all!
> 
> I am trying to compile git. The catch is that my zlib is installed in 
> non-standard directory, namely: /tmp/dont.delete/fakeroot
> 
> Here are my environment varialbes:
> LDFLAGS=-L/tmp/dont.delete/fakeroot/lib
> LD_RUN_PATH="/tmp/dont.delete/fakeroot/lib
> CC="ccache cc -o3"
> 
> but after running make, the compilation stops ate linking with this error:
> <snip>
>     AR xdiff/lib.a
>     LINK git-convert-objects
> /usr/lib64/gcc/x86_64-suse-linux/4.1.2/../../../../x86_64-suse-linux/bin/ld: 
> skipping incompatible /usr/lib/libz.so when searching for -lz
> /usr/lib64/gcc/x86_64-suse-linux/4.1.2/../../../../x86_64-suse-linux/bin/ld: 
> skipping incompatible /usr/lib/libz.a when searching for -lz
> /usr/lib64/gcc/x86_64-suse-linux/4.1.2/../../../../x86_64-suse-linux/bin/ld: 
> cannot find -lz
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> make: *** [git-convert-objects] Error 1
> </snip>
> Which to my understating means that it is not even trying to find zlib 
> in /tmp/dont.delete/fakeroot
> 
> My way of compiling is:
> make configure
> ./configure --cache-file=config.cache --prefix=/tmp/dont.delete/fakeroot
> make
> 
Solved.
Removed/updated manually CFLAGS and LDFLAGS in Makefile

This is, I suppose, a bug in Makefile then.

The configure script created by Makefile should update Makefile with the 
arguments passed to it.

Anupam

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## Anupam Srivastava, 2007-08-19 21:19

Subject: Re: Error compiling git
Message-ID: <46C8B3E2.8090102@itt.uni-stuttgart.de>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/46C8B3E2.8090102%40itt.uni-stuttgart.de
In-Reply-To: <46C8B39B.6060603@itt.uni-stuttgart.de>

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