Re: recent patch breaks the build ?

Andrew Wozniak wrote:

Yes, that suggestion worked - it is similar to other code fragments and ifdefs within the same file.

Unfortunately, now there are other failures:

gcc -o http-push.o -c -g -O2 -Wall -DSHA1_HEADER='<openssl/sha.h>' http-push.c
http-push.c: In function `start_mkcol':
http-push.c:479: `CURLOPT_HTTPGET' undeclared (first use in this function)

....

I grep'd for these defines and they are nowhere to be found!  Is some other package needed to resolve these undefines on my RH7.2 build host?

curl and curl-devel. Or you can build with

	make NO_CURL=YesPlease

which just means you won't have http and https transports available. This shouldn't be much of a problem on a server though.

I'm really surprised that the unmodified tarball source fails to build. Just curious, is the git project rebuilt on a "nightly" basis to verify recent patches?

I have no idea, but since it's a developer tool in pre-1.0 I think the general consensus is that user-friendliness in the build-process comes somewhere between "not so important" and "what? users? oh, those living in the *other* land!"

Perhaps you should try the RPM's at http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git-core/ ?

If nothing else it will tell you what other packages you need.

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