Fw: Re: Unable to Compile Wine on MacOSX

[James Mckenzie]

-----Forwarded Message-----
> From: James Mckenzie 
> Sent: Feb 25, 2010 6:52 AM
> To: Charles Davis 
> Subject: Re: Unable to Compile Wine on MacOSX
> > James McKenzie wrote:
> > > Interestingly enough, I have run into the 'Unable to compile' problem
> > > building the latest git on MacOSX.  Maybe there is corruption in my git
> > > pull, but this started yesterday....
> > >
> > > It appears that configure never fully finishes and config.status loops.
> >
> > I don't have that problem... And I've been experimenting with clang as
> > my compiler!
> >
> > By the way, I never use git pull. I always do git fetch; git rebase
> > origin, which is what you're supposed to do anyway if you have local
> > patches in your tree.
>
> That is what I have been doing.  What I may need to do is run git clone and get a new copy.  For some strange reason my git copy gets corrupted and I have to do a new 'pull'.
> > Another thing I do is run autoreconf, because I have local changes to
> > configure.ac in my tree. That might have something to do with it.
>
> Hmmm...
> > I have noticed a change in configure behavior, though. config.status
> > creates the makefiles during make, not configure. I find that odd, but
> > it still works, so I'm happy.
>
> I'm thinking that both were running and that was causing problems as the first pass finished and then a second one started up.
>
> At least you confirmed this is 'normal'.
>
> James McKenzie

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Can anyone confirm that this changed with either yesterday's or Monday's git?

Thank you.

James McKenzie