From: Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de>
Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2012 20:15:14 GMT
Subject: Re: [msysGit] Breakage in master?
Message-ID: <4F2AEED2.30503@web.de>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.1202021956370.1249@s15462909.onlinehome-server.info>

On 02.02.12 19:57, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> Hi Erik,
> 
> On Thu, 2 Feb 2012, Erik Faye-Lund wrote:
> 
>> Something strange is going on in Junio's current 'master' branch
>> (f3fb075). "git show" has started to error out on Windows with a
>> complaint about our vsnprintf:
>> ---8<---
>>
>> $ git show
>> commit f3fb07509c2e0b21b12a598fcd0a19a92fc38a9d
>> Author: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
>> Date:   Tue Jan 31 22:31:35 2012 -0800
>>
>>     Update draft release notes to 1.7.10
>>
>>     Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
>>
>> fatal: BUG: your vsnprintf is broken (returned -1)
>> ---8<---
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> I'm at a loss here. Does anyone have a hunch about what's going on?
> 
> It very much reminds me of 6ef404095bc1162031fc3cb43430b512e975bc6a...
> 
> Is it possible that NO_GETTEXT is either not set, or ignored?
> 
> Ciao,
> Dscho
Hi,
same problem here, tested on Win XP.

Good news (?):
Setting 
NO_GETTEXT=YesPlease
in the Makefile makes the problem go away for me.
/Torsten