On Tue, Sep 09, 2014 at 04:34:02PM -0400, Gerry Reno wrote: > Downloaded the git-2.1.0.tar.gz tarball. > > Cannot build git 2.1.0: Weird. It works fine for me on Debian unstable. What platform are you on? > cc -g -O2 -Wall -I. -DHAVE_ALLOCA_H -DHAVE_PATHS_H -DHAVE_DEV_TTY -DHAVE_CLOCK_GETTIME > -DSHA1_HEADER='<openssl/sha.h>' -DNO_STRLCPY -DNO_MKSTEMPS -DSHELL_PATH='"/bin/sh"' -o git-credential-store > credential-store.o libgit.a xdiff/lib.a -lz -lcrypto -lpthread -lrt > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status > make: *** [git-credential-store] Error 1 So the linker failed, but it didn't actually tell us why. That's not much to go on. Are you sure there was no other output on stderr? I assume the reason it broke on git-credential-store is just because it is the first thing we try to link. What does: make V=1 prefix=/usr/local git output? Does it successfully link "git"? -Peff -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html