Hi,
I just tried git 1.5.6.4 on a Solaris 10 box. Building mostly went
smooth, but a few unhappy edges turned up:
~/git-1.5.6.4>gmake MAKE=gmake
LINK git-daemon
ld: fatal: library -lcurl: not found
ld: fatal: library -lcrypto: not found
ld: fatal: File processing errors. No output written to git-daemon
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
gmake: *** [git-daemon] Error 1
Of course curl is available, it's just somewhere else. And that is where
the fun begins that comes with plain Makefiles.
"What's the variable I ought to set?"
Yes, usually it is LDFLAGS, and this is also true for git. But not
everyone necessarily adheres to that, and looking through the Makefile
is not fun. That also reminds me of CFLAGS, which about every Makefile
write happily sets to
CFLAGS = -g -O2 -Wall -Wmy-fancy-flags
which would give no way to keep -Wmy-fancy-flags while also overriding
it. Autotools solved this whereby a developer puts -Wmy-fancy-flags that
shall always be present into AM_CFLAGS instead and only puts the really
freely choosable flags into CFLAGS. Of course I could list all the
developers flags that are needed/wanted (-Wmy-fancy-flags) like
make CFLAGS="-Wdevelopers-fancy-flags -O3 -g0"
but one would have to look them up first and and etc.
Ok, enough Makefile ramblings, as there seems to be a configure script
lurking. What's the Makefile good for then if configure will create it
anyway?
Trying my luck with configure, I call
./configure --prefix=$HOME/rt --with-openssl=/opt/csw
--with-curl=/opt/csw
but what I get is that it obviously did not find neither openssl nor
curl, though they do exist in /opt/csw/include and /opt/csw/lib:
checking for SHA1_Init in -lcrypto... no
checking for SHA1_Init in -lssl... no
checking for curl_global_init in -lcurl... no
checking for XML_ParserCreate in -lexpat... no
(someone please fix that)
./configure --prefix=$HOME/rt --with-openssl=/opt/csw
--with-curl=/opt/csw CFLAGS="-O2 -I/opt/csw/include -L/opt/csw/lib
-R/opt/csw/lib"
# using /usr/ccs/bin/ld, not GNU ld
That finally made it succeed in finding SHA1_Init. Then however,
~/git-1.5.6.4>make
make: Fatal error in reader: Makefile, line 158: Unexpected end
of line seen
So configure did not create a POSIX-compatible Makefile. Ok,
I had gmake, so the story is successfully done here :)
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