On Fri, 13 Mar 2009, David Berry wrote:
> I'm using git version 1.5.4.3 at the moment on my laptop.
Released circa Feb 2008, so old by git standards and uses the script clone
command.
> My desktop has a bust PSU and is with the engineers at the moment.
Oh dear, still haven't sent my machine back with the flakely CPU.
Must have been a bad bunch.
> I download the latest git and built from source on the desktop.
That would use libcurl, provided you installed the libcurl development
package.
Peter.
> 2009/3/13 Peter W. Draper <[log in to unmask]>:
>> On Fri, 13 Mar 2009, Peter W. Draper wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, 11 Mar 2009, David Berry wrote:
>>>
>>>> 2009/3/11 Tim Jenness <[log in to unmask]>:
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mar 11, 2009, at 7:10 AM, David Berry wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> and no Makefile was created. Poking about here and there led me to the
>>>>>> idea of installing "curl", and re-doing the bootstrap. This seems to
>>>>>> have fixed thing. Maybe the need for curl to be available should be
>>>>>> highlighted somewhere since it was not at all obvious to me what the
>>>>>> problem was. Maybe it should be mentioned in the README, or better the
>>>>>> bootstrap script should check for it and issue an error if it's not
>>>>>> available.
>>>>>
>>>>> where does curl get used?
>>>>
>>>> It's used within git somewhere (can't remember where at the moment).
>>>
>>> It supports the http: protocol. Perl is now downloaded using this, rather
>>> than git: as some of us have firewall policies that don't allow git:.
>>>
>>> (The observant of you may have noticed that Perl is now part of the make
>>> configure-deps stage).
>>>
>>> It's really an issue with git configuration; I expect you have a local
>>> build of that, so not sure what I can do about that. I'll have a look at
>>> update-modules...
>>
>> Hmm, seems that you must have a really old git, or have built it without
>> libcurl support (the older git-clone script used the curl command and the
>> modern git-clone program libcurl). Anyway I've changed the update-modules
>> and bootstrap scripts so that this error will stop the bootstrap, forcing
>> you to look at the relevant message.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Peter.
>>
>
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