octave-maintainers
[Top][All Lists]
Advanced

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

Re: finally actually using gnulib


From: Shai Ayal
Subject: Re: finally actually using gnulib
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2009 22:24:31 +0200

On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 9:03 PM, Benjamin Lindner <address@hidden> wrote:
> John W. Eaton wrote:
>>
>> The biggest change is that you have to have git to check out the
>> gnulib sources.
>
> Hmm, apparently git is not available for windows, only for cygwin.
> At least git's homepage does not have any info on native windows
> ports, nor does a quick google-search.
>
> Yes there is http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/
> but what you get there is something very closely mingled with a
> own separate msys installation, so you cannot use it from within an
> msys session for building octave. It's also not clear if this port
> is even usable with a standard msys installation from mingw.org.
> According to the changelogs, they patched or extended msys so no,
> obviously it will not work with a standard msys installation.
>
> Not what I was looking for.
>
> Glancing at your diff I seems one now also requires rsync. Am I right?
> Guess what - also not available for windows, except cygwin.
>
> Aren't there releases or snapshots of gnulib available?
> I must check out from the development sources?

you can get a tgz "snapshot" of the development sources via web by browsing to:
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gnulib.git
and clicking on the "snapshot" link of the latest commit.
there is probably a link to download the latest HEAD

Shai


reply via email to

[Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread]