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

[Daiki Ueno]

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:

> [push]
>         default = simple

I guess this is causing the above error, since "simple" is a recent
addition.  If I set it with git 1.7 on Mac OS X, I get the same:

  $ git config --global push.default simple
  $ mkdir t
  $ cd t
  $ git init .
  error: Malformed value for push.default: simple
  error: Must be one of nothing, matching, tracking or current.
  fatal: bad config file line 3 in /Users/ueno/.gitconfig

>> 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.

I see, that's good then.

> But I don't understand why xz is
> mandatory, and if so it should be checked at configure time.

It's not mandatory, but preferred.

Regards,
-- 
Daiki Ueno