From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Sun, 03 Aug 2008 10:45:51 GMT
Subject: Re: Missing pieces for 1.6.0 on MinGW?
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0808031239110.9611@pacific.mpi-cbg.de.mpi-cbg.de>
In-Reply-To: <1217754985.4895776973fda@webmail.nextra.at>

Hi,

On Sun, 3 Aug 2008, Johannes Sixt wrote:

> (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