Re: [PATCH/RFC] Makefile: do not depend on curl-config

2014-05-05 Thread Erik Faye-Lund
On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 9:46 PM, Sebastian Schuberth sschube...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 6:52 PM, Johannes Schindelin johannes.schinde...@gmx.de wrote: We can keep this patch in the msysGit repo for the 2.0 release. FWIW the plan is to switch to mingwGitDevEnv for the 2.0

Re: [PATCH/RFC] Makefile: do not depend on curl-config

2014-05-05 Thread Sebastian Schuberth
On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 12:53 PM, Erik Faye-Lund kusmab...@gmail.com wrote: FWIW the plan is to switch to mingwGitDevEnv for the 2.0 release. It is not quite clear as of yet how patches will be managed with said environment. The environment is just that: The environment to build Git for

Re: [msysGit] Re: [PATCH/RFC] Makefile: do not depend on curl-config

2014-05-05 Thread Thomas Braun
Am 05.05.2014 12:53, schrieb Erik Faye-Lund: On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 9:46 PM, Sebastian Schuberth sschube...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 6:52 PM, Johannes Schindelin johannes.schinde...@gmx.de wrote: We can keep this patch in the msysGit repo for the 2.0 release. FWIW the plan

Re: [PATCH/RFC] Makefile: do not depend on curl-config

2014-04-30 Thread Erik Faye-Lund
On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 6:29 PM, Erik Faye-Lund kusmab...@gmail.com wrote: MinGW builds of cURL does not ship with curl-config unless built with the autoconf based build system, which is not the practice recommended by the documentation. MsysGit has had issues with binaries of that sort, so it

Re: [PATCH/RFC] Makefile: do not depend on curl-config

2014-04-30 Thread Junio C Hamano
Erik Faye-Lund kusmab...@gmail.com writes: MinGW builds of cURL does not ship with curl-config unless built with the autoconf based build system, which is not the practice recommended by the documentation. MsysGit has had issues with binaries of that sort, so it has switched away from

Re: [PATCH/RFC] Makefile: do not depend on curl-config

2014-04-30 Thread Dave Borowitz
On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 8:27 AM, Junio C Hamano gits...@pobox.com wrote: How old/battle tested is this change? My inclination at this point is to revert the merge of Dave's series from 2.0 (yes, I know we have been looking at fixing it and I _think_ the issue of unpleasant error message you

Re: [PATCH/RFC] Makefile: do not depend on curl-config

2014-04-30 Thread Erik Faye-Lund
On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 5:27 PM, Junio C Hamano gits...@pobox.com wrote: Erik Faye-Lund kusmab...@gmail.com writes: MinGW builds of cURL does not ship with curl-config unless built with the autoconf based build system, which is not the practice recommended by the documentation. MsysGit has

Re: [PATCH/RFC] Makefile: do not depend on curl-config

2014-04-30 Thread Johannes Schindelin
Hi kusma, On Wed, 30 Apr 2014, Erik Faye-Lund wrote: We can keep this patch in the msysGit repo for the 2.0 release. FWIW the plan is to switch to mingwGitDevEnv for the 2.0 release. It is not quite clear as of yet how patches will be managed with said environment. Ciao, Johannes -- To

Re: [PATCH/RFC] Makefile: do not depend on curl-config

2014-04-30 Thread Sebastian Schuberth
On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 6:52 PM, Johannes Schindelin johannes.schinde...@gmx.de wrote: We can keep this patch in the msysGit repo for the 2.0 release. FWIW the plan is to switch to mingwGitDevEnv for the 2.0 release. It is not quite clear as of yet how patches will be managed with said

[PATCH/RFC] Makefile: do not depend on curl-config

2014-04-28 Thread Erik Faye-Lund
MinGW builds of cURL does not ship with curl-config unless built with the autoconf based build system, which is not the practice recommended by the documentation. MsysGit has had issues with binaries of that sort, so it has switched away from autoconf-based cURL-builds. Unfortunately, broke