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

Hi,

On Thu, 5 Feb 2009, Joi Ellis wrote:

On Fri, 6 Feb 2009, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

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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 is _not_.

A chicken and egg problem would be if your problem would go away if Git 
compiled cleanly.  But it does not.

As I said in my original post, git will build on this machine if I have 
a configure script to run first.  The configure script explicitly checks 
for the version of libz and sets a DEFINE appropriately.

So why don't you DEFINE the thing explicitely?  From reading the Makefile, 
it appears as if

	$ make NO_DEFLATE_BOUND=YesPlease

should make it compile.  Of course, the documentation in the first part of 
the Makefile could be better, maybe you have suggestions?

Hth,
Dscho