From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Shawn O. Pearce" Subject: Re: Git building is borked Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2007 10:13:02 -0500 Message-ID: <20070308151302.GC30674@spearce.org> References: <4BBB354C-B000-4EF7-B3FF-7B2A4D6DE538@cam.ac.uk> <20070308145532.GA30674@spearce.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Anton Altaparmakov X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Mar 08 16:13:16 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HPKIr-0000cD-5E for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Thu, 08 Mar 2007 16:13:15 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752077AbXCHPNJ (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Mar 2007 10:13:09 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752083AbXCHPNI (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Mar 2007 10:13:08 -0500 Received: from corvette.plexpod.net ([64.38.20.226]:50005 "EHLO corvette.plexpod.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752077AbXCHPNH (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Mar 2007 10:13:07 -0500 Received: from cpe-74-70-48-173.nycap.res.rr.com ([74.70.48.173] helo=asimov.home.spearce.org) by corvette.plexpod.net with esmtpa (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HPKIc-0001BX-Od; Thu, 08 Mar 2007 10:12:58 -0500 Received: by asimov.home.spearce.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 961EB20FBAE; Thu, 8 Mar 2007 10:13:02 -0500 (EST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - corvette.plexpod.net X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - vger.kernel.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - spearce.org X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Anton Altaparmakov 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.