From: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cam.ac.uk>
Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2007 15:19:14 GMT
Subject: Re: Git building is borked
Message-ID: <C8A6CE49-CBAE-415E-8F40-D1062ECBD2F9@cam.ac.uk>
In-Reply-To: <20070308151302.GC30674@spearce.org>

On 8 Mar 2007, at 15:13, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:
> 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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Anton Altaparmakov <aia21 at cam.ac.uk> (replace at with @)
Unix Support, Computing Service, University of Cambridge, CB2 3QH, UK
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