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

[Henry Vermaak]

On 6 September 2010 13:32, Sven Barth <pascaldragon at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Am 06.09.2010 13:46, schrieb Henry Vermaak:
>>
>> The problem, as I've stated previously, is that (imo) having two
>> different mingw/msys installations on the path would be asking for
>> trouble (different versions of gcc, libs, etc).  That's why some
>> people start with the git install, then unzip extra packages into that
>> directory when they need them.  Hopefully with the new mingw-get there
>> will be a package for git in time.
>
> At least in my installation (I've set Git to be run in Cmd (or PowerShell in
> my case)) only the directory that contains the cmd wrappers
> (%GitInstallDir%\cmd) is in the PATH. And as that directory only contains
> that wrappers it might set up its environment on start by itself. Thus it
> should not conflict with other msys installations.

Perhaps it'll work o.k. then.

Henry