Hi,
On Thu, 15 Jan 2009, Jeremy Ramer wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 3:33 PM, Johannes Schindelin
> <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Wed, 14 Jan 2009, Jeremy Ramer wrote:
> >
> >> Ok this is a weird issue and it's probably cygwin's fault, but I
> >> haven't found any way to fix it so I' thought I would throw it out
> >> here for comment.
> >>
> >> I am using git 1.6.0.4 on cygwin. I have a repo where if any file has
> >> changes and git detects as mode 100644 I get this error:
> >> $git diff
> >> 3 [main] git 2744 C:\cygwin\bin\git.exe: *** fatal error - could
> >> not load user32, Win32 error
> >>
> >> If I change the mode to 100755 git diff will work fine.
> >> $chmod a+x test.cpp
> >> $git diff
> >> diff --git a/test.cpp b/test.cpp
> >> old mode 100644
> >> new mode 100755
> >> index 7c0dfcd..20987a7
> >> --- a/test.cpp
> >> +++ b/test.cpp
> >> @@ -6,9 +6,11 @@ int main()
> >>
> >> void func()
> >> {
> >> + int a;^M
> >> }
> >>
> >> void func2()
> >> {
> >> + int b;^M
> >> }
> >>
> >> Anybody have a clue as to why this might occur? I have seen this in
> >> many of the repo's I use, but it is not repeatable. I tried making a
> >> test repo but could not reproduce.
> >
> > Wow, that _is_ weird. Does your test suite pass?
> >
> > Ciao,
> > Dscho
> >
>
> Forgive my ignorance, but I am not sure how to run the test suite. I
> did a quick google search but didn't find anything. I am using
> cygwin's packaged version of git and am not building it from source,
> so maybe the suite is not available. If I get a chance I will try
> building from source.
It is really easy: just make sure that make, gcc, libiconv-dev,
openssl-dev and libcurl-dev are installed (that's it AFAIR), then download
a tarball, e.g.
http://repo.or.cz/w/git.git?a=snapshot;h=next;sf=tgz
unpack it, cd to it and run "make". (I would _not_ run configure...)
Hth,
Dscho
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