From: "Kevin P. Fleming" <kpfleming@digium.com>
To: Jon Seymour <jon.seymour@gmail.com>
Cc: david@davidwbrown.name, git@vger.kernel.org,
Manuel Doninger <manuel.doninger@googlemail.com>
Subject: Re: Mercurial over Git no success
Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2011 07:06:25 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D5FC051.3090505@digium.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimi8MU3VYug6orouHS7GmBJ-Pf27_zj_KO0Sj6c@mail.gmail.com>
On 02/14/2011 05:19 PM, Jon Seymour wrote:
> From the INSTALL file:
>
> - Git is reasonably self-sufficient, but does depend on a few external
> programs and libraries. Git can be used without most of them by adding
> the approriate "NO_<LIBRARY>=YesPlease" to the make command line or
> config.mak file.
>
> - "zlib", the compression library. Git won't build without it.
>
> ...
It would be quite appropriate then for git's configure script to *fail*
if zlib and zlib headers are not present. The OP would have known what
was wrong much earlier (and likely with a more useful error message) if
that had happened.
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-02-19 13:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-02-14 21:01 Mercurial over Git no success david
2011-02-14 21:24 ` PICCA Frédéric-Emmanuel
2011-02-14 21:26 ` knittl
2011-02-15 0:50 ` Gabriel Filion
2011-02-14 21:50 ` Manuel Doninger
2011-02-14 23:19 ` Jon Seymour
2011-02-19 13:06 ` Kevin P. Fleming [this message]
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