From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2006 14:58:51 GMT
Subject: Re: git on cygwin
Message-ID: <ek9lkc$ahf$1@sea.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <4568555F.8050500@byu.net>

Eric Blake wrote:

> I found the following patch useful for building git 1.4.4.1 on cygwin.  As
> of cygwin-1.5.22, C99 format strings are now supported (since I
> contributed the newlib patch that added them).  As of cygwin-1.5.21, d_ino
> is now reliable for all cygwin filesystem accesses (except for some remote
> NetApp drives, which have been fixed in cygwin CVS).  And while it is true
> that native Windows does not support symlinks, making NO_SYMLINK_HEAD a
> good idea for native builds; this is not the case for cygwin, and I did
> not seem to have any problems with removing it, either.

By the way, does ./configure script (make configure && ./configure)
detect this correctly?

BTW. symlink HEAD is considered obsolete.
-- 
Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
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