Hi Adam,

On Aug  6 11:21, Adam Dinwoodie wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm in the long-running process of producing an up-to-date build of Git
> for Cygwin.  I think I'm now (finally) close to having a build ready to
> upload to be installed via the Cygwin setup programs, but in the
> meantime I'd appreciate my new build getting some additional testing.
> 
> You can download my latest build of Git v2.0.4 at
> http://tastycake.net/~adam/cygwin/.
> 
> To install, download the package(s) you're interested in using, and
> unpack them using `tar -xaC/ -f <tarball-name>` from a Cygwin shell.
> Make sure to check the corresponding setup.hint files to ensure you have
> all the required dependencies first.
> 
> 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.


> `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.


Corinna

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