On Wed, Aug 06, 2014 at 04:18:41PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Aug 6 11:21, Adam Dinwoodie wrote: > > This build isn't final, but it does work in at least the mainline use > > cases; I've been using it for a couple of days for my day-to-day work. > > However there are still some problems I'm aware of (no `git grep -P` > > support, > > Sounds like libpcre-devel is missing on your machine.
Agreed. I've just spent a while playing whack-a-mole with problems of this ilk and thought I'd try seeing if there where any willing volunteers to do some live testing to spot problems the test suites miss before I offer my builds to the unsuspecting public. > > `git fetch` occasionally hangs in the test suites in 64-bit) > > and there are probably some problems I haven't identified yet. > > > > I'm currently in the process of working through the Git test suite > > output to identify missing features, since it's the best way I've found > > to identify features the Git compile process has quietly skipped since a > > required library wasn't installed. > > If the git build system uses autotools, you might have an easier time by > scanning the config.log file created during the configure call. It does, and doing that trawl picked up a number of missing libraries. Nonetheless looking through the tests that are being skipped due to missing dependencies is highlighting a few things like this that I managed to miss when looking at the configure output. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
