Re: cygwin git diff crash
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 8:34 AM, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
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> Hi,
>
> On Thu, 15 Jan 2009, Jeremy Ramer wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 3:33 PM, Johannes Schindelin
>> <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > On Wed, 14 Jan 2009, Jeremy Ramer wrote:
>> >
>> >> Ok this is a weird issue and it's probably cygwin's fault, but I
>> >> haven't found any way to fix it so I' thought I would throw it out
>> >> here for comment.
>> >>
>> >> I am using git 1.6.0.4 on cygwin. I have a repo where if any file has
>> >> changes and git detects as mode 100644 I get this error:
>> >> $git diff
>> >> 3 [main] git 2744 C:\cygwin\bin\git.exe: *** fatal error - could
>> >> not load user32, Win32 error
>> >>
>> >> If I change the mode to 100755 git diff will work fine.
>> >> $chmod a+x test.cpp
>> >> $git diff
>> >> diff --git a/test.cpp b/test.cpp
>> >> old mode 100644
>> >> new mode 100755
>> >> index 7c0dfcd..20987a7
>> >> --- a/test.cpp
>> >> +++ b/test.cpp
>> >> @@ -6,9 +6,11 @@ int main()
>> >>
>> >> void func()
>> >> {
>> >> + int a;^M
>> >> }
>> >>
>> >> void func2()
>> >> {
>> >> + int b;^M
>> >> }
>> >>
>> >> Anybody have a clue as to why this might occur? I have seen this in
>> >> many of the repo's I use, but it is not repeatable. I tried making a
>> >> test repo but could not reproduce.
>> >
>> > Wow, that _is_ weird. Does your test suite pass?
>> >
>> > Ciao,
>> > Dscho
>> >
>>
>> Forgive my ignorance, but I am not sure how to run the test suite. I
>> did a quick google search but didn't find anything. I am using
>> cygwin's packaged version of git and am not building it from source,
>> so maybe the suite is not available. If I get a chance I will try
>> building from source.
>
> It is really easy: just make sure that make, gcc, libiconv-dev,
> openssl-dev and libcurl-dev are installed (that's it AFAIR), then download
> a tarball, e.g.
>
> http://repo.or.cz/w/git.git?a=snapshot;h=next;sf=tgz
>
> unpack it, cd to it and run "make". (I would _not_ run configure...)
>
> Hth,
> Dscho
>Well, after compiling from source the error seems to have disappeared. Strange. I have seen it disappear before and come back later so I will watch out for it, but for now it's not an issue.
Just a note, the cygwin names for the packages necessary to compile are curl-devel gcc libiconv make openssl-devel
Jeremy
