From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Dec 2008 10:13:46 GMT
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.6.1
Message-ID: <7v3agca7fp.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20081225100033.GA8451@b2j>

bill lam <cbill.lam@gmail.com> writes:

> On ubuntu64 8.10, the NO_UINTMAX_T seems cause some trouble, I have to
> comment out the block (in the Makefile),
>
> fdef NO_UINTMAX_T
>  BASIC_CFLAGS += -Duintmax_t=uint32_t
> ndif
>
> to make a successful compilation. Does it happen to me only?

Nobody reported it since that was added about a month and half ago.

Why are you building with NO_UINTMAX_T to begin with?  Isn't ubuntu 8.10 a
recent enough platform that ships with modern enough header files that
define ANSI uintmax_t type?