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Re: Missing pieces for 1.6.0 on MinGW?

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Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date
Aug 3, 2008, 10:45 UTC
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Hi,
On Sun, 3 Aug 2008, Johannes Sixt wrote:
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> (2) the non-builtins in $(bindir) don't set argv0_path, and consequently 
> don't find ETC_GITCONFIG.
> 
> (3) the 'mingw_main undefined' error is still a mystery. I'm about to 
> send a preprocessed file to Steffen (it's a bit large, even compressed, 
> so I'll do that in a private mail).

For both issues, IMHO Steve's patches should be superior, as they (with my proposed lookup_program_in_path()) would not only make relative ETC_GITCONFIG work on MinGW, but everywhere else, too. Obsoleting mingw_main, of course.

Ciao, Dscho

Previous: Steffen Prohaska
Message 6 of 6 in “Missing pieces for 1.6.0 on MinGW?”
  1. Junio C HamanoAug 2, 2008
  2. Steffen ProhaskaAug 3, 2008
  3. Johannes SixtAug 3, 2008
  4. Björn SteinbrinkAug 3, 2008
  5. Steffen ProhaskaAug 3, 2008
  6. Johannes SchindelinAug 3, 2008

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