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

On Fri, 6 Feb 2009, Joi Ellis wrote:

I have an elderly laptop.  I can build and install git using a tarball.  I 
original installed git 1.6.0.  This evening I noticed 1.6.1 was availble, and I 
decided to try building from the git repository using 'git clone' as described 
in the git home page.   And to jump ahead of myself, I want to point out that 
1.6.1 will build from the tarball.  However...

The workspace I get using 'git clone' does not provide a configure file.  And 
because my laptop isn't running a bleeding edge distribution, my build tools 
are older than you'd expect, so...

"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'

What zlib version do you have? If your libraries are old enough, git's 
cache.h header file should effectively enable NO_DEFLATE_BOUND. Maybe you 
have skew between your header files and the libraries the linker finds by 
default? Or maybe we should consider any zlib without a version in the 
header file old enough not to have deflateBound()?

	-Daniel
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