git on cygwin

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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.

- --- origsrc/git-1.4.4.1/Makefile        2006-11-22 19:38:07.000000000 -0700

+++ src/git-1.4.4.1/Makefile    2006-11-24 17:51:00.600344000 -0700

@@ -369,11 +369,8 @@
 endif
 ifeq ($(uname_O),Cygwin)
        NO_D_TYPE_IN_DIRENT = YesPlease
- -       NO_D_INO_IN_DIRENT = YesPlease
        NO_STRCASESTR = YesPlease
- -       NO_SYMLINK_HEAD = YesPlease
        NEEDS_LIBICONV = YesPlease
- -       NO_C99_FORMAT = YesPlease
        # There are conflicting reports about this.
        # On some boxes NO_MMAP is needed, and not so elsewhere.
        # Try uncommenting this if you see things break -- YMMV.

- --

Life is short - so eat dessert first!

Eric Blake             ebb9@byu.net
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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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