Mircea Bardac <dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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... > configure: CHECKS for site configuration ...and here is check for --with-zlib=<path to zlib> > configure: creating ./config.status > config.status: creating config.mak.autogen > > $ make > GIT_VERSION = 1.5.6.1 > * new build flags or prefix > CC daemon.o > In file included from daemon.c:1: > cache.h:9:18: error: zlib.h: No such file or directory > make: *** [daemon.o] Error 1 > > (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! -- Jakub Narebski Poland ShadeHawk on #git -- 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