Re: What's in git.git

From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: Aug 3, 2006, 08:09 UTC
Message-ID: <81b0412b0608030109g6f49113ep5cf577475117469b@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vd5bis9ha.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On 8/3/06, Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:

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> >>   - Git.pm by Pasky with help from Pavel Roskin and others.
> >>
> >>     I'd like to merge this immediately after 1.4.2, unless there
> >>     still are concerns about its portability (in which case
> >>     please help fixing them up before this hits the "master"
> >>     branch).
> >
> > Completely broken on ActiveState Perl and cygwin. Generated Makefile
> > contains pathnames with backslashes and the whole file has
> > CRLF line endings.
>
> Anything constructive other than "doctor it hurts when I use
> activestate", so you can help improve things to be more
> ActiveState friendly?

Nothing. If I had something, I'd post it.

> What's the standard workflow/procedure ActiveState users would
> use to build and install .xs extensions?  Maybe they have their
> own $(MAKE) equivalent that groks such a Makefile with
> backslashed pathnames and CRLF endings?

I don't know. It's a bit more than backslashes and CRLF. The pathnames must be _completely_ converted from windows to cygwin. Cygwin even provides an utility for that (cygpath). Besides, there still is that stupid case-sensitivity problem.