On 2015-08-26 19.42, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Jeff S <acornblue@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> Brian thanks for responding! I'm finally able to build git completely. >> Would it be possible to add the OS X dependency to the git/INSTALL >> file? >> >> OSX Yosemite 10.10.5 >> Xcode 6.4 (6E35b) >> … >> $ brew install autoconf >> $ brew install asciidoc >> $ brew install xmlto >> $ brew install docbook >> $ export XML_CATALOG_FILES=/usr/local/etc/xml/catalog >> $ brew install docbook-xsl > > It may not be a bad idea to add a whole section at the end of the > document to list the prerequisite packages for various common > platforms, whose beginning perhaps would look like this? > > diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL > index ffb071e..84fa5cf 100644 > --- a/INSTALL > +++ b/INSTALL > @@ -221,3 +221,23 @@ Issues of note: > http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/xsl/current \ > /usr/share/sgml/docbook/xml-dtd-4.5 \ > /etc/xml/catalog > + > + > +Platform specific hints: > + > +You would need to install prerequiste tools and libraries to compile > +and use Git from the source. > + > + - OSX needs the following packages installed with 'brew install' > + (in addition to the usual make and C compiler suite): > + > + autoconf, asciidoc, xmlto, docbook, docbook-xsl > + > + - Linux distributions derived from Debian need the following packages > + instaslled via 'apt-get install' or similar (in addition to the > + usual 'make' and C compiler suite that come as part of > + build-essential): > + > + autoconf, asciidoc, xmlto, docbook, libz-dev, livcurl4-openssl-dev, > + ... > + I like this. This is what I have been using for Debian (and RHEL 6.5 or so) (But it doesn't include "make doc") #!/bin/sh if type apt-get; then APTGET="sudo apt-get install" fi if type yum; then APTGET="sudo /usr/bin/yum install" fi export APTGET type gcc || $APTGET gcc type curl-config || $APTGET libcurl4-openssl-dev || $APTGET libcurl-devel test -r /usr/include/expat.h || $APTGET libexpat1-dev || $APTGET expat-devel test -r /usr/include/ssl.h || test -r /usr/include/openssl/ssl.h || $APTGET openssl-devel type msgfmt || $APTGET gettext type make || $APTGET make -- 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