Re: git 0.99.7b doesn't build on Cygwin

From: Peter TB Brett <peter@peter-b.co.uk>
Date: Sep 23, 2005, 13:50 UTC
Message-ID: <14403.62.254.128.6.1127483455.squirrel@mail.twu.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0509231537390.11109@wgmdd8.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>

Johannes Schindelin wrote:

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>> I wanted to use git on a Windows-based project (yes, there are some
>> out there still), so I fired up my Cygwin xterm, untarred the git
>> sources and totally failed to succeed in building them:
>
> Also see my mail regarding cygwin:
>
> http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au/archives/git/0508/7956.html

Yes. I found that just after I'd spammed the list.

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> This is the IPv6 stuff. There are patches to cygwin to support IPv6
> somewhere, but they haven't made it into mainline.
>
> As for the other problem I mentioned in my original mail:
>
> It seems that the fixup of the mmap()ed regions after a fork() does not
> work properly in cygwin. Remember that cygwin just wraps the non-POSIX
> Win32API and tries to make it sort of POSIX compliant. The problem is that
> Win32API lacks a proper fork(). This is therefore emulated, and after
> that, all the mmap()ed regions have to be mapped again. That fails.

Hmph. Sounds like I'm stuffed.

Ah well, I'll just have to use something else -- I know Mercurial works on Windows. To be honest, I'd prefer to use git though; I've used it on other projects and it's really nice.

Ah well, can't have everything you want all of the time, neh?

Peter

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