Re: Git building is borked
On 8 Mar 2007, at 15:13, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:
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> Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cam.ac.uk> wrote:
>> On 8 Mar 2007, at 14:55, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:
>>> What version of Git specifically are you building with? How did
>>> you obtain these source files?
>>
>> On my old workstation (Linux) which has the git git tree on it I
>> tarred up the files in the git directory (not including the .git
>> directory), then scp-ed the tar ball to my new workstation (OSX),
>> untarred it there and tried to build git to boot strap...
>
> Since you solved your problem, this is more for the list archives
> than anything:
>
> Use `make dist` instead. It uses your currently installed Git
> to generate a tarball from the revision in HEAD, then appends in
> the 4 critical files. I use this all of the time (almost daily,
> or close to it) to do builds of Git on Cygwin and Solaris 9.
> In both cases I am building without `git` (or .git) available,
> and am relying on just the output of `make dist`.
Ah, that is cool. Thanks. I will use that next time. (-:
Best regards,
Anton
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