From: Shawn O. Pearce Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2007 15:13:02 GMT Subject: Re: Git building is borked Message-ID: <20070308151302.GC30674@spearce.org> In-Reply-To: Anton Altaparmakov wrote: > On 8 Mar 2007, at 14:55, Shawn O. Pearce wrote: > >What version of Git specifically are you building with? How did > >you obtain these source files? > > On my old workstation (Linux) which has the git git tree on it I > tarred up the files in the git directory (not including the .git > directory), then scp-ed the tar ball to my new workstation (OSX), > untarred it there and tried to build git to boot strap... Since you solved your problem, this is more for the list archives than anything: Use `make dist` instead. It uses your currently installed Git to generate a tarball from the revision in HEAD, then appends in the 4 critical files. I use this all of the time (almost daily, or close to it) to do builds of Git on Cygwin and Solaris 9. In both cases I am building without `git` (or .git) available, and am relying on just the output of `make dist`. -- Shawn.