RE: Version 1.8.1 does not compile on Cygwin 1.7.14

From: Jason Pyeron <jpyeron@pdinc.us>
Date: Jan 6, 2013, 06:29 UTC
Message-ID: <BB541ECCD3F04E479F06CA491DDB598D@black>
In-Reply-To: <1890551.8jTmplCF6O@thunderbird>

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephen & Linda Smith 
> Sent: Sunday, January 06, 2013 1:21
> 
> > Was it the commit before
> > 9fca6cffc05321445b59c91e8f8d308f41588b53 that compiles or was it 
> > 9fca6cffc05321445b59c91e8f8d308f41588b53 that compiled? I 
> am doing a 
> > cygwin update presently to look at it.
> 
> Since the email earlier today, I had blown away the 
> directory.   I just now 
> did the following
> 
> git clone https://github.com/git/git.git git-src && cd 
> git-src && make all
> ...   The make errored out as before
>

No error for me.

> git co 9fca6c && make all
> ...   The make errored out as before

No error for me.

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> 
> git co 9fca6c^  && make all
> ... and this compiles to completion
> 
> CYGWIN_NT-5.1 WINXPMACHINE 1.7.14(0.260/5/3) 2012-04-24 17:22 
> i686 Cygwin

This is old, do you have the luxury of updating it?

> 
> What else can I do to test this out (I will get a current 
> cygwin tomorrow to use in a test).

I would also check to see if your devel packages are up to date too.

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