Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schinde...@gmx.de> writes:

> Hi Steven,
>
> On Sun, 8 Jan 2017, Steven Penny wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Jan 8, 2017 at 5:54 AM, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
>> > I am curious: how do you build Git? I ask because I build Git on Windows
>> > many times a day, and I did not encounter any link problems.
>> 
>> My end goal is to build static native Windows Git via Cygwin and the
>> mingw64-x86_64-gcc-core package.
>
> That is certainly a worthy goal, and I would highly recommend to mention
> that particular cross-compiling setup in the commit message. It's not like
> this is the easiest way to build native Git on Windows...

In addition to the patch being explained well, I also care that it
does not break existing builds.  I do not think it is the case for
you, and I do think the patch does the right thing, but just double
checking to see if you have objections to the change itself.

Thanks.

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