From bef19da9b663044887ecac5ee091ca93567ef331 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Robert Schiele <rschiele@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2007 20:35:45 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] add option to find zlib in custom path

Some systems do not provide zlib development headers and libraries in
default search path of the compiler.  For these systems we should allow
specifying the location by --with-zlib=PATH or by setting ZLIB_PATH in
the makefile.

Signed-off-by: Robert Schiele <rschiele@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
---
 Makefile     | 8 +++++++-
 configure.ac | 3 +++
 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index c58a4c2a0..ca1247d0e 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -373,7 +373,7 @@ BUILTIN_OBJS = \
 	builtin-pack-refs.o
 
 GITLIBS = $(LIB_FILE) $(XDIFF_LIB)
-EXTLIBS = -lz
+EXTLIBS =
 
 #
 # Platform specific tweaks
@@ -518,6 +518,12 @@ ifndef NO_CURL
 	endif
 endif
 
+ifdef ZLIB_PATH
+	BASIC_CFLAGS += -I$(ZLIB_PATH)/include
+	EXTLIBS += -L$(ZLIB_PATH)/lib $(CC_LD_DYNPATH)$(ZLIB_PATH)/lib
+endif
+EXTLIBS += -lz
+
 ifndef NO_OPENSSL
 	OPENSSL_LIBSSL = -lssl
 	ifdef OPENSSLDIR
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 50d2b85ac..b2f196585 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -75,6 +75,9 @@ GIT_ARG_SET_PATH(shell)
 # Define PERL_PATH to provide path to Perl.
 GIT_ARG_SET_PATH(perl)
 #
+# Define ZLIB_PATH to provide path to zlib.
+GIT_ARG_SET_PATH(zlib)
+#
 # Declare the with-tcltk/without-tcltk options.
 AC_ARG_WITH(tcltk,
 AS_HELP_STRING([--with-tcltk],[use Tcl/Tk GUI (default is YES)])
-- 
2.26.2