Re: [bug-gettext] [platform-testers] gettext 0.19.5 first release candidate

[paul zimmermann]

       Hi,

> From: Daiki Ueno <address@hidden>
> Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2015 11:11:02 +0900
> 
> Thanks for testing.
> 
> paul zimmermann <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > ./convert-archive dir git "$inputfile" archive.git.tar.gz
> > error: Malformed value for push.default: simple
> > error: Must be one of nothing, matching, tracking or current.
> > fatal: bad config file line 15 in /users/caramel/zimmerma/.gitconfig
> > fatal: Not a git repository (or any parent up to mount point /localdisk)
> 
> It seems that your ~/.gitconfig file has errors, but I don't know if
> there is any easy way to temporarily ignore ~/.gitconfig.

here is my ~/.gitconfig, I have no error with other applications:

address@hidden:/localdisk/gettext-0.19.4.73-e70e$ cat ~/.gitconfig
[color]
        diff = auto
        status = auto
        branch = auto
[user]
        name = Paul Zimmermann
        email = address@hidden
[alias]
        ci = commit
        co = checkout
        st = status
        br = branch
[push]
        default = simple

> By the way, I wonder why git is used here in the first place, while the
> default compression method of the archive is xz.  Is xz installed on
> your system?  If so, it should be a bug and the complete build log would
> be helpful.

xz is not installed, neither is bzip2. But I don't understand why xz is
mandatory, and if so it should be checked at configure time.

Paul