{"thread":{"id":"43287","subject":"git on cygwin","startedAt":"2006-11-25T14:38:23Z","lastAt":"2006-11-25T14:58:51Z","messageCount":2,"participants":["Eric Blake","Jakub Narebski"],"isPatch":false,"patchVersion":null,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"294232","messageId":"4568555F.8050500@byu.net","threadId":"43287","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"git on cygwin","fromName":"Eric Blake","fromEmail":"ebb9@byu.net","sentAt":"2006-11-25T14:38:23Z","receivedAt":"2006-11-25T14:38:23Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"eblake@redhat.com","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/32933908?v=4"},"body":"-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----\nHash: SHA1\n\nI found the following patch useful for building git 1.4.4.1 on cygwin.  As\nof cygwin-1.5.22, C99 format strings are now supported (since I\ncontributed the newlib patch that added them).  As of cygwin-1.5.21, d_ino\nis now reliable for all cygwin filesystem accesses (except for some remote\nNetApp drives, which have been fixed in cygwin CVS).  And while it is true\nthat native Windows does not support symlinks, making NO_SYMLINK_HEAD a\ngood idea for native builds; this is not the case for cygwin, and I did\nnot seem to have any problems with removing it, either.\n\n- --- origsrc/git-1.4.4.1/Makefile        2006-11-22 19:38:07.000000000 -0700\n+++ src/git-1.4.4.1/Makefile    2006-11-24 17:51:00.600344000 -0700\n@@ -369,11 +369,8 @@\n endif\n ifeq ($(uname_O),Cygwin)\n        NO_D_TYPE_IN_DIRENT = YesPlease\n- -       NO_D_INO_IN_DIRENT = YesPlease\n        NO_STRCASESTR = YesPlease\n- -       NO_SYMLINK_HEAD = YesPlease\n        NEEDS_LIBICONV = YesPlease\n- -       NO_C99_FORMAT = YesPlease\n        # There are conflicting reports about this.\n        # On some boxes NO_MMAP is needed, and not so elsewhere.\n        # Try uncommenting this if you see things break -- YMMV.\n\n- --\nLife is short - so eat dessert first!\n\nEric Blake             ebb9@byu.net\n-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----\nVersion: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin)\nComment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg\nComment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org\n\niD8DBQFFaFVe84KuGfSFAYARAjdrAJ9A+d9/aaEG0V2j8VTs/oycIpUS0wCeL/Ly\n70V5CWHOrAKD7kI09gQiTh0=\n=C8dP\n"},{"id":"294986","messageId":"ek9lkc$ahf$1@sea.gmane.org","threadId":"43287","inReplyTo":"4568555F.8050500@byu.net","subject":"Re: git on cygwin","fromName":"Jakub Narebski","fromEmail":"jnareb@gmail.com","sentAt":"2006-11-25T14:58:51Z","receivedAt":"2006-11-25T14:58:51Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"jnareb@gmail.com","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/2706?v=4"},"body":"Eric Blake wrote:\n\n> I found the following patch useful for building git 1.4.4.1 on cygwin.  As\n> of cygwin-1.5.22, C99 format strings are now supported (since I\n> contributed the newlib patch that added them).  As of cygwin-1.5.21, d_ino\n> is now reliable for all cygwin filesystem accesses (except for some remote\n> NetApp drives, which have been fixed in cygwin CVS).  And while it is true\n> that native Windows does not support symlinks, making NO_SYMLINK_HEAD a\n> good idea for native builds; this is not the case for cygwin, and I did\n> not seem to have any problems with removing it, either.\n\nBy the way, does ./configure script (make configure && ./configure)\ndetect this correctly?\n\nBTW. symlink HEAD is considered obsolete.\n-- \nJakub Narebski\nWarsaw, Poland\nShadeHawk on #git\n\n"}]}