On 09/09/2014 06:42 PM, Jeff King wrote: > 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 > I downloaded git-2.0.4.tar.gz and it builds and links fine. I wiped out the 2.1.0 installation so cannot test anything more. -- 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