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

[Sven Barth]

Am 08.09.2010 14:35, schrieb Florian Klaempfl:
> Am 06.09.2010 13:46, schrieb Henry Vermaak:
>> On 6 September 2010 12:21, Sven Barth<pascaldragon at googlemail.com>  wrote:
>>> Am 06.09.2010 11:29, schrieb Henry Vermaak:
>>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>
>>> It simplifies installation. They might have come to the conclusion that most
>>> users that want to use Git don't have a msys installation. And msys is
>>> needed for the tools and environment that Git relies on.
>>
>> Obviously.
>>
>> 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.
>
> IIRC breaks msys git in the path (even as last entry) even FPC building
> :) So a no-go :)

If I remember correctly the msysGit setup provides multiple ways of 
setting up the PATH variable. Might be that I chose the safest option, 
because I have no troubles building FPC :)

Regards,
Sven