Re: pkg/42168: 1.6.4.1 on 4.0.1 success

[Dan McMahill <dmcmahill%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/42168; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Dan McMahill <dmcmahill%NetBSD.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: bjs%NetBSD.org@localhost, gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost, 
pkgsrc-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Subject: Re: pkg/42168: 1.6.4.1 on 4.0.1 success
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2009 23:15:32 -0500

 der Mouse wrote:
 > The following reply was made to PR pkg/42168; it has been noted by GNATS.
 > 
 > From: der Mouse <mouse%Rodents-Montreal.ORG@localhost>
 > To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
 > Cc: 
 > Subject: Re: pkg/42168: 1.6.4.1 on 4.0.1 success
 > Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2009 22:57:03 -0500 (EST)
 > 
 >  I found building git 1.6.4.1 on NetBSD/i386 4.0.1 to be a fairly easy
 >  thing.  In off-list email, I was prompted to drop a note to this PR
 >  reporting this.
 >  
 >  Checking my git install, I find cd -P in only one place, that being
 >  git-sh-setup.  This might have caused trouble if I were trying to set
 >  up a git repository on my machine, which I wasn't; while possibly a
 >  problem, it did not lead to "a totally non-functional git".
 >  
 >  Perhaps breaking setup is enough for dmcmahill to consider git totally
 >  non-functional.  Or perhaps this is a version difference.
 
 It has been a while, but I think the first thing I tried was to clone a 
 repository and it failed with the 'cd -P' thing.  I can't recall now if 
 there were 2 spots or just the 1 spot that had 'cd -P'.  As near as I 
 can tell this is the first operation that most users probably need to do 
 so I considered it quite fatal.
 
 Anyway, thanks for attaching the patches.  I've just been way to buried 
 to spend the small amount of time needed to fix this.
 
 -Dan