Hello, I am able to compile and use git by defining THREADED_DELTA_SEARCH and copying setjmp.h from mingw (www.mingw.org) to msys include folder with small changes to it. If it does add value, we should try to enable this by default. -dhruva On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 1:59 PM, Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Johannes Sixt schrieb: >> Mike Ralphson schrieb: >>> 2008/11/17 Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>: >>>> Mike Ralphson schrieb: >>>>> 2008/11/15 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: >>>>>> On Sat, 15 Nov 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote: >>>>>>> This introduces make variable NO_PTHREADS for platforms that lack the >>>>>>> support for pthreads library or people who do not want to use it for >>>>>>> whatever reason. When defined, it makes the multi-threaded index >>>>>>> preloading into a no-op, and also disables threaded delta searching by >>>>>>> pack-objects. >>>>>> Ack. Makes sense. >>>>> I'd be minded to make this the default on AIX to keep the prerequisite >>>>> list as small as possible, then people can opt-in for the performance >>>>> benefits if required. >>>> Is pthreads not a standard shipment on AIX? I would set NO_PTHREADS only >>>> if we know in advance that there are many installations without pthreads. >>>> (And I don't know what the situation is.) >>> I should have dug a bit further, it seems to be present on my 5.3 >>> machines but I still need to determine whether it got installed by >>> default. Either way it must need some other link flags... >> >> I tried compiling with THREADED_DELTA_SEARCH=Yes, and it fails with >> >> CC builtin-pack-objects.o >> In file included from /usr/include/sys/pri.h:29, >> from /usr/include/sys/sched.h:38, >> from /usr/include/sched.h:52, >> from /usr/include/pthread.h:43, >> from builtin-pack-objects.c:22: >> /usr/include/sys/proc.h:203: parse error before "crid_t" >> /usr/include/sys/proc.h:212: parse error before "p_class" >> /usr/include/sys/proc.h:355: parse error before '}' token >> >> :-( Maybe NO_PTHREADS is indeed the safer choice? I'm not going to dig >> into this today, though. (I'm on AIX 4.3.something.) >> >>>> BTW, this needs to be squashed in, because we don't have pthreads on Windows: >>>> >>>> diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile >>>> index ffc9531..3a30b8c 100644 >>>> --- a/Makefile >>>> +++ b/Makefile >>>> @@ -769,6 +769,7 @@ ifneq (,$(findstring MINGW,$(uname_S))) >>>> NO_STRCASESTR = YesPlease >>>> NO_STRLCPY = YesPlease >>>> NO_MEMMEM = YesPlease >>>> + NO_PTHREADS = YesPlease >>>> NEEDS_LIBICONV = YesPlease >>>> OLD_ICONV = YesPlease >>>> NO_C99_FORMAT = YesPlease >>>> >>> Ta. Ok to add your S-o-B on a squashed patch? >> >> Sure. Use this address please: >> >> Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@xxxxxxxx> > > Mike, > > you said you would resend the patch, but I think you forgot about it. > Would you do that now, please? > > -- Hannes > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: 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 > -- Contents reflect my personal views only! -- To unsubscribe from this list: 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