Re: Mercurial vs Updated git HOWTO for kernel hackers

On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 05:07:52PM +0200, Petr Baudis wrote:

Dear diary, on Fri, Jun 24, 2005 at 03:57:00PM CEST, I got a letter
where Kevin Smith [off-list ref] told me that...

quoted

- Can run on (native) MS Windows
  (necessary for me because I often work on cross-platform projects)

I'd expect everything to work fine with Cygwin (or with only minor
problems easy to fix) or just any working bash + GNU coreutils
installation. Any issue with that?

The code is full of Unixisms.  You'd almost think that the authors
of git have some kind of affinity towards Unix.

i386-mingw32-gcc -g -O2 -Wall '-DSHA1_HEADER=<openssl/sha.h>'   -c -o read-cache.o read-cache.c
In file included from read-cache.c:6:
cache.h:14:22: sys/mman.h: No such file or directory
cache.h:16:24: netinet/in.h: No such file or directory
In file included from read-cache.c:6:
cache.h: In function `create_ce_mode':
cache.h:104: warning: implicit declaration of function `S_ISLNK'
cache.h:105: warning: implicit declaration of function `htonl'
cache.h:105: error: `S_IFLNK' undeclared (first use in this function)
cache.h:105: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
cache.h:105: error: for each function it appears in.)
[..]
read-cache.c:376: warning: implicit declaration of function `mmap'
read-cache.c:376: error: `PROT_READ' undeclared (first use in this function)
read-cache.c:376: error: `PROT_WRITE' undeclared (first use in this function)
read-cache.c:376: error: `MAP_PRIVATE' undeclared (first use in this function)
read-cache.c:376: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast
read-cache.c:399: warning: implicit declaration of function `munmap'
[..]

skimo