Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> But now I put the git-gui mentions back into the Makefile and tried
> again it still fails. Looking at it closer it actually requires me
> to compile within a checked out git tree, i.e. including the .git
> directory and all its contents! That seems even weirder than
> requiring git to be installed in the first place...
What version of Git specifically are you building with? How did
you obtain these source files?
Release tarballs of Git contain a git-gui/credits file that makes
CREDITS-GEN avoid invoking the not-yet-existing Git. Building
git-gui without this file does require not only a working Git
installation, but also the git-gui object database. Both of these
are readily available on a Git hacker's system, and on any system
that is attempting to create a release tarball.
There are other files included in the release tarballs (version,
git-gui/version) that are also required to get a correct build when
you don't have Git installed, or are missing its object database.
Having these missing does not stop the build process, but it does
make the output of `git version` and `git gui version` relatively
useless.
So you need to be bootstrapping from a released *.tar.{gz,bz2},
which can be found here:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/
Sadly, simply downloading the source files from a random gitweb
doesn't work anymore. Yes, I know, my fault. ;-)
--
Shawn.
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