[fpc-other] Re: [fpc-devel] Parallel processing in the compiler

[Henry Vermaak]

On 6 September 2010 10:20, Graeme Geldenhuys <graemeg.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 6 September 2010 10:27, Henry Vermaak wrote:
>> The install is crazy, it basically installs a whole mingw/msys system
>> (when I last checked).  I've already got an mingw/msys install and
>> having two is suicide.  I've heard that people use the git install as
>> a base and then install other mingw/msys packages on top of it.
>
>
> No idea which Windows git version you are running. There is the old
> Cygwin version, and the newer (windows native) msysGit version. The
> latter is a mere 12MB download, and allows install customization on
> how it should integrate with Windows, and how it should handle
> LineEnding characters etc.  Nothing difficult about it, and the tools
> included work just fine.

Yes, I'm talking about msysgit.  It installs a whole msys tree, which
I am not interested in, as I've explained above.  Perhaps I'll try and
build git inside my own msys.  I have no idea why they just didn't
integrate it - I'm sure there must be a reason.

Henry