Rakudo cygwin make: "no rule to make target 'perl6'"

Mark Glines mark at glines.org
Tue Feb 10 22:45:15 UTC 2009


Peter Schwenn wrote:
> I found no git in Strawberry Perl so I installed Cygwin (with all git
> modules) but
> using that git got me (after using SVN to update and make parrot itself):
>  
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> pschwenn at pschwen-5p8x0f1 <mailto:pschwenn at pschwen-5p8x0f1>
> /cygdrive/c/parrot/languages
> $ git clone git://github.com/rakudo/rakudo.git
> <http://github.com/rakudo/rakudo.git>
> Initialized empty Git repository in
> /cygdrive/c/parrot/languages/rakudo/.git/
> remote: Counting objects: 11613, done.
> remote: Compressing objects: 100% (3072/3072), done.
> remote: Total 11613 (delta 8333), reused 11505 (delta 8262)
> Receiving objects: 100% (11613/11613), 1.59 MiB | 76 KiB/s, done.
> Resolving deltas: 100% (8333/8333), done.
> error: refs/remotes/origin/master does not point to a valid object!
> error: refs/remotes/origin/gh-pages does not point to a valid object!
> error: Trying to write ref refs/heads/master with nonexistant object
> e73c9586051
> a205a84d35f0629ae3a96fe2d69c7
> fatal: Cannot update the ref 'HEAD'.
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>  
> Is it the case that I should be using some other Windows version of git?

I've been using msysgit with strawberry perl with good results.
Specifically, that's Git-1.6.1-preview20081227.exe from
http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/.

Mark


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