Re: Git building is borked

["Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>]

Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> On 8 Mar 2007, at 14:55, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:
> >What version of Git specifically are you building with?  How did
> >you obtain these source files?
> 
> On my old workstation (Linux) which has the git git tree on it I  
> tarred up the files in the git directory (not including the .git  
> directory), then scp-ed the tar ball to my new workstation (OSX),  
> untarred it there and tried to build git to boot strap...

Since you solved your problem, this is more for the list archives
than anything:

Use `make dist` instead.  It uses your currently installed Git
to generate a tarball from the revision in HEAD, then appends in
the 4 critical files.  I use this all of the time (almost daily,
or close to it) to do builds of Git on Cygwin and Solaris 9.
In both cases I am building without `git` (or .git) available,
and am relying on just the output of `make dist`.
 
-- 
Shawn.