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git on cygwin

From
Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
Date
Nov 25, 2006, 14:38 UTC
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I found the following patch useful for building git 1.4.4.1 on cygwin. As of cygwin-1.5.22, C99 format strings are now supported (since I contributed the newlib patch that added them). As of cygwin-1.5.21, d_ino is now reliable for all cygwin filesystem accesses (except for some remote NetApp drives, which have been fixed in cygwin CVS). And while it is true that native Windows does not support symlinks, making NO_SYMLINK_HEAD a good idea for native builds; this is not the case for cygwin, and I did not seem to have any problems with removing it, either.

- --- origsrc/git-1.4.4.1/Makefile        2006-11-22 19:38:07.000000000 -0700
+++ src/git-1.4.4.1/Makefile    2006-11-24 17:51:00.600344000 -0700
@@ -369,11 +369,8 @@
 endif
 ifeq ($(uname_O),Cygwin)
        NO_D_TYPE_IN_DIRENT = YesPlease
- -       NO_D_INO_IN_DIRENT = YesPlease
        NO_STRCASESTR = YesPlease
- -       NO_SYMLINK_HEAD = YesPlease
        NEEDS_LIBICONV = YesPlease
- -       NO_C99_FORMAT = YesPlease
        # There are conflicting reports about this.
        # On some boxes NO_MMAP is needed, and not so elsewhere.
        # Try uncommenting this if you see things break -- YMMV.

- --
Life is short - so eat dessert first!

Eric Blake             ebb9@byu.net
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