On 8 Mar 2007, at 14:55, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:
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?
On my old workstation (Linux) which has the git git tree on it I
tarred up the files in the git directory (not including the .git
directory), then scp-ed the tar ball to my new workstation (OSX),
untarred it there and tried to build git to boot strap...
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. ;-)
Ah, ok. I did not realize that released tar balls would be different
to just tarring up the files...
That is fair enough. In the end I manage to boot strap myself by
removing the git-gui stuff out of the main Makefile which allowed me
to do make and sudo make install. Then I used the newly installed
git to do a "git clone" of the git repository on kernel.org, then
build and installed that which gave me git-gui as well.
I then deleted the old git directory I used for boot strapping.
Thanks for the quick response.
Best regards,
Anton
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Anton Altaparmakov <aia21 at cam.ac.uk> (replace at with @)
Unix Support, Computing Service, University of Cambridge, CB2 3QH, UK
Linux NTFS maintainer, http://www.linux-ntfs.org/
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