>> Great effort Johannes! The package work perfectly on XP. I'm
>> trying to get it to work under Wine, but it (Wine) is not playing
>>  nice with me at the moment. (The whole system barfs of "Access
>> Denied" and other things. Grrr)
> 
> Even if it installs ok under Wine, git may not work properly
> because a bug in dup2() not duplicating to 0-2 and some others that
> I think only affect tests. So get XP if you can or prepare to fix
> Wine along the way.

Yeah, I wasn't going to use it under Wine actually. Just wanted to see 
if I could get it building there, to ease automated packaging later. 
However, I've given up on it, due to a perl issue, which might be 
caused by the issue you describe.

-- 
.marius