Re: Chicken/egg problem building from a 'git clone'

On 2009.02.05 22:45:13 -0600, Joi Ellis wrote:

On Fri, 6 Feb 2009, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

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Hi,

On Fri, 6 Feb 2009, Joi Ellis wrote:

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"make all" fails becuase my libaries are old:

    LINK git-fast-import
fast-import.o: In function `store_object':
/usr/local/src/git/git/fast-import.c:1086: undefined reference to `deflateBound'
/usr/local/src/git/git/fast-import.c:1109: undefined reference to `deflateBound'

You need to install a newer libz.  (And this is not a chicken & egg 
problem.)

Yes, this *is* a chicken & egg problem.

No, it's not. It would be one if you needed git to update your zlib or
autoconf. But you don't, so you could simply update zlib or autoconf.
There's no circular dependency. You can even just do "make
NO_DEFLATE_BOUND=1" and be done with it...

Björn