git 2.1.0: make fails

Downloaded the git-2.1.0.tar.gz tarball.

Cannot build git 2.1.0:

    $ V=1 make prefix=/usr/local all
    ...
    cc -o xdiff/xpatience.o -c -MF xdiff/.depend/xpatience.o.d -MQ xdiff/xpatience.o -MMD -MP  -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"'  xdiff/xpatience.c
    cc -o xdiff/xhistogram.o -c -MF xdiff/.depend/xhistogram.o.d -MQ xdiff/xhistogram.o -MMD -MP  -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"'  xdiff/xhistogram.c
    rm -f xdiff/lib.a && ar rcs xdiff/lib.a xdiff/xdiffi.o xdiff/xprepare.o xdiff/xutils.o xdiff/xemit.o xdiff/xmerge.o
    xdiff/xpatience.o xdiff/xhistogram.o
    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

    $ ls -l credential.o libgit.a xdiff/lib.a /usr/lib/libz.a /usr/lib/libcrypt.a /usr/lib/libpthread.a /usr/lib/librt.a
    -rw-rw-r-- 1 greno greno   20332 Sep  9 16:21 credential.o
    -rw-rw-r-- 1 greno greno 4658874 Sep  9 16:23 libgit.a
    -rw-r--r-- 1 root  root    24272 Jan  5  2007 /usr/lib/libcrypt.a
    -rw-r--r-- 1 root  root   228586 Jan  5  2007 /usr/lib/libpthread.a
    -rw-r--r-- 1 root  root    52128 Jan  5  2007 /usr/lib/librt.a
    -rwxr-xr-x 1 root  root    92622 Jul 19  2006 /usr/lib/libz.a
    -rw-rw-r-- 1 greno greno  122456 Sep  9 16:23 xdiff/lib.a

Weird. It works fine for me on Debian unstable. What platform are you on?

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.