From: Mircea Bardac <dev@mircea•bardac.net>
To: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail•com>
Cc: git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: BUG (v1.5.6.1): ./configure missing check for zlib.h
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 16:15:31 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48650413.2080001@mircea.bardac.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3prq3hr6n.fsf@localhost.localdomain>
Jakub Narebski wrote:
> Mircea Bardac <dev@mircea•bardac.net> writes:
>
>> $ ./configure
> [...]
>> configure: CHECKS for header files
>
> Here ./configure check for existence of heder files, but only those
> that can be skipped by defining some macro...
> [...]
>>
>> (installing zlib1g-dev on Ubuntu 7.10 fixed the problem)
>
> What should ./configure do (what ./configure for other programs
> or packages do)?
>
> You cannot compile git without zlib!
Well, as far as I know, if a program depends on any external headers,
they should *all* be checked, not only "those that can be skipped by
defining some macro" (I personally do not know which are these).
Mircea
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http://mircea.bardac.net
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-27 15:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-27 12:30 BUG (v1.5.6.1): ./configure missing check for zlib.h Mircea Bardac
2008-06-27 14:46 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-06-27 15:07 ` tom fogal
2008-06-27 23:03 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-06-29 3:13 ` Ian Hilt
2008-06-27 15:15 ` Mircea Bardac [this message]
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