From: Marius Storm-Olsen Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2007 11:29:05 GMT Subject: Re: Git on MSys (or how to make it easy for Windows users to compile git) Message-ID: <46B31181.5020007@trolltech.com> In-Reply-To: >> 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. -- .marius