Re: Problem with S_IFGITLINK
Adam Kłobukowski venit, vidit, dixit 24.08.2011 14:49:
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> Hello
>
> I'm trying to compile git on some very exotic u*ix flavor (FreeMiNT
> anyone? :)) and I encountered problem with S_IFGITLINK.
>
> Unfortunately, on my system S_IFGITLINK = S_IFLNK, and it breaks build
> in entry.c write_entry.
>
> Should I report a bug? (where?, I could not find any reference to
> bugtracker on git pages)
Yes. Here.
A short log of the build break would be nice.
> Can I fix it somehow? Can I change value of S_IFGITLINK to something else?
From git's cache.h:
/*
* A "directory link" is a link to another git directory.
*
* The value 0160000 is not normally a valid mode, and
* also just happens to be S_IFDIR + S_IFLNK
*
* NOTE! We *really* shouldn't depend on the S_IFxxx macros
* always having the same values everywhere. We should use
* our internal git values for these things, and then we can
* translate that to the OS-specific value. It just so
* happens that everybody shares the same bit representation
* in the UNIX world (and apparently wider too..)
*/
Time to implement that translation :|
Michael
Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>