From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Kevin P. Fleming" Subject: Re: Mercurial over Git no success Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2011 07:06:25 -0600 Organization: Digium, Inc. Message-ID: <4D5FC051.3090505@digium.com> References: <1297717305.19327@davidwbrown.name> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: david@davidwbrown.name, git@vger.kernel.org, Manuel Doninger To: Jon Seymour X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Feb 19 14:06:39 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PqmWE-0003wd-RQ for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Sat, 19 Feb 2011 14:06:39 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751920Ab1BSNGe (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 Feb 2011 08:06:34 -0500 Received: from mail.digium.com ([216.207.245.2]:53857 "EHLO mail.digium.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750908Ab1BSNGc (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 Feb 2011 08:06:32 -0500 Received: from zimbra.digium.internal ([10.24.55.203] helo=zimbra.hsv.digium.com) by mail.digium.com with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PqmW4-0005QR-FM; Sat, 19 Feb 2011 07:06:28 -0600 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.hsv.digium.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 638BBD82A1; Sat, 19 Feb 2011 07:06:28 -0600 (CST) Received: from zimbra.hsv.digium.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.hsv.digium.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id pBndqKexU+0G; Sat, 19 Feb 2011 07:06:27 -0600 (CST) Received: from [192.168.1.6] (173-24-207-63.client.mchsi.com [173.24.207.63]) by zimbra.hsv.digium.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 1F2B2D82A0; Sat, 19 Feb 2011 07:06:27 -0600 (CST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101208 Thunderbird/3.1.7 In-Reply-To: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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_=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. -- Kevin P. Fleming Digium, Inc. | Director of Software Technologies 445 Jan Davis Drive NW - Huntsville, AL 35806 - USA skype: kpfleming | jabber: kfleming@digium.com Check us out at www.digium.com & www.asterisk.org