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Re: 1.5.25-15: git 1.6.1.2: fatal error during initial commit under Win98SE
- From: Eric Blake <ebb9 at byu dot net>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 13:58:35 +0000 (UTC)
- Subject: Re: 1.5.25-15: git 1.6.1.2: fatal error during initial commit under Win98SE
- References: <75924.59838.qm@web33205.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
Alexey Lyubimov <alexeipobox <at> yahoo.com> writes:
>
> $ git commit -m "initial revision"
> fatal: Out of memory? mmap failed: Permission denied
>
> Can anybody help me (or, at least, explain)?
Your problem is that Win98 is unsupported by Microsoft, and soon to be
unsupported by cygwin. I built the cygwin package of git assuming that you
would be using a saner filesystem (in other words, the version of git that
ships from cygwin.com assumes NTFS, which Win98 does not support); as a result,
you have proven that my assumptions break on Win98. In order to run git on
this old of a platform, you will have to compile it from source yourself, and
where I commented out the "NO_MMAP = YesPlease" line in git's Makefile, you
will have to leave that line in effect. Sorry, I'm not too keen on bending
over backwards to support an obsolete system that I no longer have access to,
which means I can't debug your problem.
--
Eric Blake
volunteer cygwin git maintainer
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