Re: [regression] Newer gits cannot clone any remote repos

From: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Nov 15, 2012, 12:51 UTC
Message-ID: <CACsJy8Atj0WsFaYTZE9y9+tu1+L2LumVOk3sUj-t9iKbiqsBZw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CACYvZ7jMC5xw4LxiuG5m+=grpQEg+wZb_7BaU4Xn-r7ix=S-bw@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 2:55 AM, Douglas Mencken <dougmencken@gmail.com> wrote:

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>>  Could you try re-building git with the
>> NO_THREAD_SAFE_PREAD build variable set?
>
> Yeah! It works!!!
>
> --- evil/Makefile
> +++ good/Makefile
> @@ -957,6 +957,7 @@
>         HAVE_PATHS_H = YesPlease
>         LIBC_CONTAINS_LIBINTL = YesPlease
>         HAVE_DEV_TTY = YesPlease
> +       NO_THREAD_SAFE_PREAD = YesPlease
>  endif
>  ifeq ($(uname_S),GNU/kFreeBSD)
>         NO_STRLCPY = YesPlease
>
> With this, I do have correctly working git clone.

Sorry you had to figure that out the hard way. Could you make it a proper patch? I'm surprised that Linux pread does not behave the same way across platforms though. Or maybe it only happens with certain Linux versions. What version are you using?

-- 
Duy