Re: git build on msys fails (and fix)

[dhruva <dhruvakm@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 2:36 PM, Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net> wrote:
> dhruva schrieb:
>> Hello,
>>  I build git on msys environment regularly. With the recent changes to
>> add cache preload facility (commit ID:
>> 671c9b7e315db89081cc69f83a8f405e4aca37bc) brings in dependency on
>> pthreads. This is not available in the msys distribution which was
>> part of the git build distro. I installed libpthread for mingw to get
>> the related headers and libraries. I had to make some minor changes to
>> libpthread installation. I copied the 'setjmp.h' from my other mingw
>> installation and had to had edit it to remove some mingw specific
>> macros.
>>
>> @:/e/users/dhruva/stub/repo/git/git
>> [520]$ diff -u /e/tools/gnu/include/setjmp.h /mingw/include/setjmp.h
>> --- /e/tools/gnu/include/setjmp.h       Sun Oct  5 04:01:15 2008
>> +++ /mingw/include/setjmp.h     Sun Nov 30 16:18:00 2008
>> @@ -36,7 +36,7 @@
>>   * The function provided by CRTDLL which appears to do the actual work
>>   * of setjmp.
>>   */
>> -_CRTIMP int __cdecl __MINGW_NOTHROW _setjmp (jmp_buf);
>> +int __cdecl _setjmp (jmp_buf);
>>
>>  #define        setjmp(x)       _setjmp(x)
>>
>> @@ -44,7 +44,7 @@
>>   * Return to the last setjmp call and act as if setjmp had returned
>>   * nVal (which had better be non-zero!).
>>   */
>> -_CRTIMP void __cdecl __MINGW_NOTHROW longjmp (jmp_buf, int)
>> __MINGW_ATTRIB_NORETURN;
>> +void __cdecl longjmp (jmp_buf, int);
>>
>>  #ifdef __cplusplus
>>  }
>>
>> Also,
>>  had to copy a pthread library with a dfferent name to the standard name:
>> $cp libpthreadGC2.a libpthread.a
>>
>> The build went fine and am using the new binaries.
>
> Would you please push your addition to the mob branch of
> git://repo.or.cz/msysgit.git? The push URL is repo.or.cz:/srv/git/msysgit.git
>
> (But notice that some commits are on the mob branch currently that are not
> in any other branch; hence, you better build on top of them so that they
> are not lost when you push to mob.)
>
> -- Hannes
>

I am not using git from the above repo. I am using it from:
git://git2.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git

I will clone from the repo you have mentioned and push my changes,
that will take some time. I have started the clone now...

-dhruva

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