Re: Help needed for solving a few issues with building git

Kaartic Sivaraam [off-list ref] writes:

Hello all,

Building without localization support
------------------------------------
I tried to build git from source without localization support by adding
the following line to the Makefile,

    NO_GETTEXT=1

It doesn't seem to be working for reasons I'm unable to find. I used
the following commands to build git.

    make prefix=$CUSTOM_BUILD_LOCATION
    make install prefix=$CUSTOM_BUILD_LOCATION

While trying to build (without the 'gettext' library that's required
for localization) I get the following error,

    Manifying 8 pod documents
        SUBDIR templates
        MSGFMT po/build/locale/pt_PT/LC_MESSAGES/git.mo
    /bin/sh: 1: msgfmt: not found
    Makefile:2179: recipe for target
    'po/build/locale/pt_PT/LC_MESSAGES/git.mo' failed
    make: *** [po/build/locale/pt_PT/LC_MESSAGES/git.mo] Error 127

    What could I be missing?

There is

    ifndef NO_GETTEXT
    all:: $(MOFILES)
    endif

which attempts to avoid generating *.mo files, but that does not
seem to be working.

    Adding HTTPS support
    --------------------
    I tried to add HTTP/HTTPS support to the custom built version for which
    AFAIK 'git' depends on 'curl'. I tried providing the location of the
    curl source in the Makefile using the following line after reading the
    instructions in the Makefile.

    CURLDIR=/path/to/curl/source

Shouldn't this point at an installed location (iow, we do not build
curl from the source while building Git)?

    # Define CURLDIR=/foo/bar if your curl header and library files are in
    # /foo/bar/include and /foo/bar/lib directories.

    Even after doing this the custom built git errors with the following
    message when I try to use the 'git fetch' command,

    fatal: Unable to find remote helper for 'https'

This is probably because you are trying to run without installing?
Ask the "git" you built what its --exec-path is, and run "ls" on
that directory to see if you have git-remote-https installed?

Trying a freshly built Git binaries without installing is done by
setting GIT_EXEC_PATH to point at bin-wrappers/ directory at the
top-level of your build tree (that is how our tests can run on an
otherwise virgin box with no Git installed).