From: Stefano Spinucci Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 01:36:24 GMT Subject: Re: Can git be tweaked to work cross-platform, on FAT32? Message-ID: <906f26060612171736pab766b7t15a36d4d3fc7e85f@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: On 12/17/06, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > ... > I am sure that there are more problems with it. BTW the problem stems from > Windows having _no_ equivalent to fork(). > ... I recompiled git with NO_MMAP and used it successfully, then I added a note in the wiki page http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/WindowsInstall on how to compile git to work on a FAT32 filesystem. Now, two questions... if you are sure that there are more problems with using MMAP, shouldn't NO_MMAP be commented better in the Makefile and in INSTALL, pointing out to use it always on cygwin ??? finally on cygwin there is a precompiled git package (v 1.4.4.1); however, I found if it was compiled *with* MMAP support... should I write to the cygwin-apps list asking for a different compilation (with NO_MMAP), or for the majority of the users the standard compilation is a better choice ??? bye ---