I don't think this is such a big issue as they've always needed to have git on their path. I wrote down my instructions for getting a working native Windows build environment (well, using MozillaBuild) on the wiki [1] which includes a script for invoking git properly in the msys environment without contaminating the MB environment with Git's.
-Rob [1] https://github.com/graydon/rust/wiki/Native-Windows-development On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 3:47 PM, Patrick Walton <[email protected]> wrote: > Apologies for spamming the mailing list, but I figure this is worth > bringing up... with the new configure changes, git is needed during the > configure step. This seems inconvenient for Windows users, who often install > msysgit in a separate bash environment from their build environment. This > setup is helpful for Windows users because Git supplies its own copies of > lots of Unix utilities that may be incompatible with those present in the > user's preferred build environment. But it does mean that users' build > environments may not have access to Git. > > Could I suggest making the git probe optional? > > Patrick > _______________________________________________ > Rust-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/rust-dev >
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