Hello, when trying to get git running on Solaris 8 (gcc 2.95), there are several pit-falls: 1) for me, install and tar are GNUish, ginstall and gtar don't exist. (INSTALL = ginstall, TAR = gtar for SunOS in Makefile) 2) connect.c and merge-index.c use signal() without including signal.h 3) Solaris ships zlib 1.1.3. That version doesn't define ZLIB_VERNUM. But no, that's not my problem, ... I have it: There is another zlib version in /usr/local. That's 1.2.3, defining ZLIB_VERNUM as 0x1230. The compiler uses include files from /usr/local, but lib from /usr/lib. Aargh, I have to dig the admins here... 4) libc don't know printf z and t modifier: alloc.c: In function `alloc_report': alloc.c:47: warning: unknown conversion type character `z' in format alloc.c:47: warning: too many arguments for format alloc.c:48: warning: unknown conversion type character `z' in format alloc.c:48: warning: too many arguments for format alloc.c:49: warning: unknown conversion type character `z' in format alloc.c:49: warning: too many arguments for format alloc.c:50: warning: unknown conversion type character `z' in format alloc.c:50: warning: too many arguments for format mktag.c: In function `verify_tag': mktag.c:69: warning: unknown conversion type character `t' in format mktag.c:69: warning: too many arguments for format mktag.c:72: warning: unknown conversion type character `t' in format mktag.c:72: warning: too many arguments for format mktag.c:77: warning: unknown conversion type character `t' in format mktag.c:77: warning: too many arguments for format mktag.c:97: warning: unknown conversion type character `t' in format mktag.c:97: warning: too many arguments for format mktag.c:104: warning: unknown conversion type character `t' in format mktag.c:104: warning: too many arguments for format 5) I don't understand why I get this warning for EMIT(c), but not for EMIT('\\'): quote.c:34: warning: value computed is not used quote.c:37: warning: value computed is not used 6) typedef long pid_t upload-pack.c: In function `create_pack_file': upload-pack.c:277: warning: int format, pid_t arg (arg 2) daemon.c: In function `remove_child': daemon.c:371: warning: int format, pid_t arg (arg 2) daemon.c: In function `child_handler': daemon.c:481: warning: int format, pid_t arg (arg 3) 7) I think these can safely be ignored: builtin-help.c: In function `cmd_help': builtin-help.c:234: warning: null format string builtin-help.c:236: warning: null format string git.c: In function `main': git.c:280: warning: null format string I'll send out patches in reply to this mail for 2) and 6) -- Uwe Zeisberger main(){char*a="main(){char*a=%c%s%c;printf(a,34,a,34%c";printf(a,34,a,34 ,10);a=",10);a=%c%s%c;printf(a,34,a,34,10);}%c";printf(a,34,a,34,10);} - : send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html