Re: Missing pieces for 1.6.0 on MinGW?

From: Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@telecom.at>
Date: Aug 3, 2008, 09:16 UTC
Message-ID: <1217754985.4895776973fda@webmail.nextra.at>
In-Reply-To: <7vljzfkzkv.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

Zitat von Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>:

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> Just a quick question before the weekend ends and -rc2 gets tagged.  (I
> lost track of that argv0 vs bin/git vs libexec/git-core/git-foo
> discussion).
>
> Are there any missing but necessary patches we need before 1.6.0 for
> MinGW?

Yes, there are some open issues:

(1) git-gui was fixed for the msysgit installer, but it broke for me; but I think I know where to fix it.

(2) the non-builtins in $(bindir) don't set argv0_path, and consequently don't find ETC_GITCONFIG.

(3) the 'mingw_main undefined' error is still a mystery. I'm about to send a preprocessed file to Steffen (it's a bit large, even compressed, so I'll do that in a private mail).

Item (1) I expect to work on later today, but needs some investigation by Steffen and perhaps Shawn. (2) is probably a minor issue. (3) is, well, a mystery, although Steffen's patch works for me, too. Nevertheless, I'd like to know why my original approach does not always work.

-- Hannes