Re: Git on MSys (or how to make it easy for Windows users to compile git)

From: Marius Storm-Olsen <marius@trolltech.com>
Date: Aug 3, 2007, 11:29 UTC
Message-ID: <46B31181.5020007@trolltech.com>
In-Reply-To: <fcaeb9bf0708030417y39f84db2lb0b202af57d8fccb@mail.gmail.com>

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>> Great effort Johannes! The package work perfectly on XP. I'm
>> trying to get it to work under Wine, but it (Wine) is not playing
>>  nice with me at the moment. (The whole system barfs of "Access
>> Denied" and other things. Grrr)
> 
> Even if it installs ok under Wine, git may not work properly
> because a bug in dup2() not duplicating to 0-2 and some others that
> I think only affect tests. So get XP if you can or prepare to fix
> Wine along the way.

Yeah, I wasn't going to use it under Wine actually. Just wanted to see if I could get it building there, to ease automated packaging later. However, I've given up on it, due to a perl issue, which might be caused by the issue you describe.

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.marius