Re: Git building is borked

> Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cam.ac.uk> wrote:
>> But now I put the git-gui mentions back into the Makefile and tried
>> again it still fails.  Looking at it closer it actually requires me
>> to compile within a checked out git tree, i.e. including the .git
>> directory and all its contents!  That seems even weirder than
>> requiring git to be installed in the first place...
>
> What version of Git specifically are you building with?  How did
> you obtain these source files?
>
> Release tarballs of Git contain a git-gui/credits file that makes
> CREDITS-GEN avoid invoking the not-yet-existing Git.  Building
> git-gui without this file does require not only a working Git
> installation, but also the git-gui object database.  Both of these
> are readily available on a Git hacker's system, and on any system
> that is attempting to create a release tarball.
>
> There are other files included in the release tarballs (version,
> git-gui/version) that are also required to get a correct build when
> you don't have Git installed, or are missing its object database.
> Having these missing does not stop the build process, but it does
> make the output of `git version` and `git gui version` relatively
> useless.
>
>
> So you need to be bootstrapping from a released *.tar.{gz,bz2},
> which can be found here:
>
>   http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/
>
>
> Sadly, simply downloading the source files from a random gitweb
> doesn't work anymore.  Yes, I know, my fault.  ;-)