On 2012-12-24 03:05, Paul Eggert wrote: > On 11/29/2012 11:12 PM, Peter Rosin wrote: >> This seems to be stalled because of a misconception. Can I please get >> a second opinion? Please? > > I'm afraid I don't understand the problem well enough to offer > an opinion -- maybe it's because I don't understand the desire > to do maintenance without git -- but I did look over the patch > and noticed that it used ">& /dev/null", which isn't portable; > it should use ">/dev/null 2>&1".
I would like to be able to use a git checkout from a system that lacks git. In my case the system which lack git is MSYS. Sure, there is MSYS-git, but that is a misnomer as it does not provide an MSYS git version at all. It instead provides a MinGW git, with a bundled MSYS installation, but that's not at all the same thing. So, since there is no MSYS version of git, my preference is to use the Cygwin git to work with various projects, e.g. Libtool. But Cygwin is slow to work with, so I prefer to not do the "make dist" dance from Cygwin in order to check if whatever changes I'm doing at the moment work for the MSYS case. It is just much faster to "make" with a VPATH build from MSYS, but then that has to work in a git checkout but with git missing. This used to work nicely for me until Gary overhauled the Libtool build machinery to do things the Gnulib way, and my proposed changes fixes the Libtool "regression" (quotes here since after all it is very much an edge case and not all that much to quarrel about). Erik stated that half the changes looked useful and made sense. The rest was already possible to do according to him, but that's just plain wrong. The .tarball-version hook in the git-version-gen script can't be used as that screws up the git checkout from the Cygwin side of things. When I pointed this out there has been two months of silence until your response. Libtool remains regressed and a PITA to work with for me until this is fixed. I'm a bit frustrated since the changes are tiny and non-intrusive, at least in my opinion. If it helps I can regenerate with your redirection fix, but I assume whoever commits it can fix that part easily enough. Just let me know. Cheers, Peter
