Build Errors with Git 1.7.2.5

[P. J. McDermott]

On 09/19/2011 07:48 PM, Lars Hjemli wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 00:58, P. J. McDermott <pjm at nac.net> wrote:
>> I've done:
>>  ~$ git clone git://hjemli.net/pub/git/cgit
>>  ~$ cd cgit/
>>  ~/cgit$ git submodule init
>>  ~/cgit$ $EDITOR .git/config
>>  (set "url" under submodule "git" to "https://github.com/git/git.git"
>>  since git.kernel.org is still down)
>>  ~/cgit$ git submodule update
> 
> So far so good, but please skip the following steps:
> 
>>  ~/cgit$ cd git/
>>  ~/cgit/git$ git checkout v1.7.2.5
>>  ~/cgit/git$ cd ../
> 
> To recover after this 'git checkout', simply run another 'git
> submodule update' in ~/cgit.
> 
> 
>> I checked out version 1.7.2.5 of Git and set GIT_VER accordingly because
>> that is the version installed on my system.
> 
> There's no direct relation between cgit and the git version installed
> on your machine - cgit is just statically linked with libgit.a and
> xdiff.a in the git submodule (and we use a submodule since these
> libraries does not have a stable api).
> 
> --
> larsh

Ah, I see.  It builds successfully then.  Thanks for the explanation!

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