From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS31976 209.132.176.0/21 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.5 required=3.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00, DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED,FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN,FREEMAIL_FROM, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MSGID_FROM_MTA_HEADER,RP_MATCHES_RCVD shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 From: Jakub Narebski Subject: Re: git on cygwin Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2006 15:58:51 +0100 Organization: At home Message-ID: References: <4568555F.8050500@byu.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2006 14:57:54 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 20 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: host-81-190-24-209.torun.mm.pl Mail-Copies-To: jnareb@gmail.com User-Agent: KNode/0.10.2 Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GnyyK-0001tI-8z for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Sat, 25 Nov 2006 15:57:40 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S966606AbWKYO5h (ORCPT ); Sat, 25 Nov 2006 09:57:37 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S966610AbWKYO5h (ORCPT ); Sat, 25 Nov 2006 09:57:37 -0500 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:29650 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S966606AbWKYO5g (ORCPT ); Sat, 25 Nov 2006 09:57:36 -0500 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1Gnyy6-0001pl-AV for git@vger.kernel.org; Sat, 25 Nov 2006 15:57:26 +0100 Received: from host-81-190-24-209.torun.mm.pl ([81.190.24.209]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 25 Nov 2006 15:57:26 +0100 Received: from jnareb by host-81-190-24-209.torun.mm.pl with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 25 Nov 2006 15:57:26 +0100 To: git@vger.kernel.org Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Eric Blake wrote: > I found the following patch useful for building git 1.4.4.1 on cygwin. As > of cygwin-1.5.22, C99 format strings are now supported (since I > contributed the newlib patch that added them). As of cygwin-1.5.21, d_ino > is now reliable for all cygwin filesystem accesses (except for some remote > NetApp drives, which have been fixed in cygwin CVS). And while it is true > that native Windows does not support symlinks, making NO_SYMLINK_HEAD a > good idea for native builds; this is not the case for cygwin, and I did > not seem to have any problems with removing it, either. By the way, does ./configure script (make configure && ./configure) detect this correctly? BTW. symlink HEAD is considered obsolete. -- Jakub Narebski Warsaw, Poland ShadeHawk on #git