On 23-May-2021, at 13:40, Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi Atharva, > > On 22/05/21 23.42, Atharva Raykar wrote: >> Hi all, >> As is tradition, I have started my weekly GSoC blog :) >> Here is week 1: https://atharvaraykar.me/gitnotes/week1 >> I shall be sharing my progress, thoughts, experiences and any >> information that might help future contributors in my blog. >> After my GSoC period, I hope to convert it into a blog that >> will help pull in and guide new contributors to Git development. >> Any kind of feedback will be appreciated! > > You said on your blog that you switched your development environment > from Linux (what the distro you used previously?) to macOS. Why did > you make the switch? No special reason for this. My old Linux machine was due for an upgrade, and a new M1 Macbook has since taken its place. > Next, you mentioned that you set up emacs config for Git developers > (ones that contribute code to git.git). Since I use (r)vim instead > of emacs as my editor, what are similar configs for vim? I don't really use Vim that much and I am not that familiar with how to configure it. Sorry, I don't think I can be of much help here. I also don't want to share tips on my blog that I won't be making use of. > And finally, you said that you had to deal with "header not found" > errors. I asked these questions: > > 1. You mentioned that in order to link against gettext on non-standard > path, you did: >> ./configure "LDFLAGS=$LDFLAGS -L/opt/homebrew/Cellar/gettext/0.21/lib" \ >> "CFLAGS=-I/opt/homebrew/Cellar/gettext/0.21/include" > Why did you use full path to gettext? I suspect that you can instead > use `LDFLAGS= $LDFLAGS -L/opt/homebrew/lib \ > CFLAGS=-I/opt/homebrew/include`, because when you install a library > using homebrew, it will symlink the library location from homebrew > standard hierarchy (/opt/homebrew/{lib,include}) to actual location > (/opt/homebrew/<User>/<package>/<version>/{lib,include}). Thanks a lot! This was helpful and did work out for me. Since I am new to macOS (and homebrew), I did not know about this hierarchy. I finally decided I would update my post to use this along with a Makefile-only approach recommended by Philippe. > 2. Can these procedure above for linking Git against libraries at > non-standard locations (such as /opt) be applicable also to Linux > systems? Try to adapt that procedure on your Linux system (if > available), with custom-compiled newer version of any of Git > dependencies (such as gettext). I'm not too sure, and unfortunately I don't have my old Linux system to verify this. > Thanks. > > -- > An old man doll... just what I always wanted! - Clara
