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Fixed text wrapping: [MinGW PATCH] Fixed error 'fatal: Not a git repository' on Vista

From
DKDmitry Kakurin <dmitry.kakurin@gmail.com>
Date
Aug 2, 2007, 07:46 UTC
Message-ID
<1A2D4E815F804E5EABD03C4A5CD455C5@ntdev.corp.microsoft.com>

Any git command was immediately failing on Vista under MinGW with fatal: Not a git repository Defined __USE_MINGW_ACCESS that changes access( ..., X_OK ) into F_OK

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Kakurin <Dmitry.Kakurin@gmail.com>
---
 Makefile |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 8e9a76b..ef40267 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -500,7 +500,7 @@ ifneq (,$(findstring MINGW,$(uname_S)))
  NO_SYMLINKS=YesPlease
  NO_SVN_TESTS=YesPlease
  NO_PERL_MAKEMAKER=YesPlease
- COMPAT_CFLAGS += -DNO_ETC_PASSWD -DNO_ST_BLOCKS -DSTRIP_EXTENSION=\".exe\" -I compat
+ COMPAT_CFLAGS += -DNO_ETC_PASSWD -DNO_ST_BLOCKS -DSTRIP_EXTENSION=\".exe\" -D__USE_MINGW_ACCESS -I compat
  COMPAT_OBJS += compat/mingw.o compat/fnmatch.o compat/regex.o
  EXTLIBS += -lws2_32
  X = .exe
-- 
1.5.2.2
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  1. Dmitry KakurinAug 2, 2007

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