From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2012 18:57:39 GMT
Subject: Re: [msysGit] Breakage in master?
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.1202021956370.1249@s15462909.onlinehome-server.info>
In-Reply-To: <CABPQNSbWu0r_gKGvCHk567pUtQiyDOCO8vFfrzPMFW1eUaj1nw@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Erik,

On Thu, 2 Feb 2012, Erik Faye-Lund wrote:

> Something strange is going on in Junio's current 'master' branch
> (f3fb075). "git show" has started to error out on Windows with a
> complaint about our vsnprintf:
> ---8<---
> 
> $ git show
> commit f3fb07509c2e0b21b12a598fcd0a19a92fc38a9d
> Author: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
> Date:   Tue Jan 31 22:31:35 2012 -0800
> 
>     Update draft release notes to 1.7.10
> 
>     Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
> 
> fatal: BUG: your vsnprintf is broken (returned -1)
> ---8<---
>
> [...]
>
> I'm at a loss here. Does anyone have a hunch about what's going on?

It very much reminds me of 6ef404095bc1162031fc3cb43430b512e975bc6a...

Is it possible that NO_GETTEXT is either not set, or ignored?

Ciao,
Dscho