Re: Re: git version 1.9.0 missing git-http-push?

> Hi kusma,
>
> On Mon, 28 Apr 2014, Erik Faye-Lund wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 10:48 AM, Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > So it seems that 08900987 ("Decide whether to build http-push in the
>> > Makefile") makes a bad assumption about the availability of
>> > curl-config on new libcurl installations; it's not present on "stock"
>> > Windows builds.
>>
>> I wonder, though. That check is over 8 years old. Are that old systems
>> (that haven't been upgraded) still able to build Git? Even my old
>> RedHat 5 setup has curl 7.15.5...
>
> The easiest way in my humble opinion would be to install a script like
> this into /mingw/bin/:
>
> -- snip --
> #!/bin/sh
>
> case "$1" in
> --vernum)
>         version="$(curl -V)" || exit
>         version="$(echo "${version%% (*)*}" | tr . \ )"
>         eval printf "%02d%02d%02d" ${version#curl }
>         ;;
> --cflags)
>         ;;
> --libs)
>         echo -lcurl
>         ;;
> esac
> -- snap --
>
> That way, upstream Git does not have anything to change (and we avoid
> discussing five versions of essentially the same patch :-P).