From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jon Seymour Subject: Re: Mercurial over Git no success Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2011 10:19:59 +1100 Message-ID: References: <1297717305.19327@davidwbrown.name> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Manuel Doninger To: david@davidwbrown.name X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Feb 15 00:20:11 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 1Pp7iC-0004Am-Hx for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Tue, 15 Feb 2011 00:20:08 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753262Ab1BNXUE convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Feb 2011 18:20:04 -0500 Received: from mail-ww0-f44.google.com ([74.125.82.44]:49586 "EHLO mail-ww0-f44.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751799Ab1BNXUB convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Feb 2011 18:20:01 -0500 Received: by wwa36 with SMTP id 36so5489655wwa.1 for ; Mon, 14 Feb 2011 15:20:00 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date :message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=GwQtkcxIMqkq84BMPSkQ7gIKojQVqgI8kOd385ublCY=; b=pYj6z9Ruj2lG13U993ejaFzJEUP6HGalmua937jyTmKBInWzhGdVZw35OgEYuAUhCQ PUYeynqX1aDVSNJN7leeatwC1N4n+eieBrO0GIS6PfrMjdB/z4MkKYlS4Jj1WHZ4Wr9o LHY97gaFw6JRM2R3nSmHnf7bjx/nFw9r2Hu2c= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=UEOQ+JZbT1ghXhcJzeHzEsfgjJUwFP2faUMA8Q8PaaJPJxJ6iUmDFhOW5DKENns0uq whM9nLWQKaKY5LqV2YIMbEKQP2J1nwMdFZckdY7eGKIZNojcUar1JDOPdWNWJOZrtN52 zZT97T01pghzyZTFqR42cf9KNbYBg5Z7QjGKE= Received: by 10.227.128.70 with SMTP id j6mr3128275wbs.16.1297725599765; Mon, 14 Feb 2011 15:19:59 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.227.60.14 with HTTP; Mon, 14 Feb 2011 15:19:59 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: =46rom 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 add= ing the approriate "NO_=3DYesPlease" to the make command line o= r config.mak file. - "zlib", the compression library. Git won't build without it. ... Per suggestions already made, on ubuntu apt-cache search and apt-cache get are your friends. jon. On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 8:50 AM, Manuel Doninger wrote: > According to the Install-section in the Pro Git book, you have to > install some other libraries. See http://progit.org/book/ch1-4.html > > Manuel > > On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 22:01, =C2=A0 wrote: >> Hello Gitters, long ago when first starting the project I'm currentl= y running at my company I looked around for a VCS/SCM that would be any= where better than: CVS/SVN. At first I looked at Git but could not get = a version to run on my Ubuntu box. So, I had to settle for Hg. Now, tha= t I'm several months into the web app dev I'm responsible for the hired= help has convinced me to switch to Git. Now, I'm back at the same old = problem I had months ago that forced me to give up on using Git. Unlike= a lot of Unix/Linux based software the usual: >> >> ./configure >> make >> make install >> >> Does not work for building Git on my local Ubuntu box (10.10 BTW). S= ome non-innocuous error condition as follows: >> >> cannot find zlib.h >> >> Pls advise. David. >> > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at =C2=A0http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.ht= ml >