Re: OS X (configure --with-ns) typing unresponsive with Org and Viper

[Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>]

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Michael Brand wrote:
> In autogen.sh "git rev-parse --git-common-dir 2>/dev/null"
> => "--git-common-dir" which looks wrong. My git version is 2.4.9
> (Apple Git-60).
> 
> What am I doing wrong?

Nothing, Apple is just mired in the past. Git 2.4 was released when, 2015? I
installed the attached patch into Emacs to try to cater better to Git laggards.
Please give the patch a try. (This is Emacs. We *love* old software! :-)


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From 9105be11e61ea355e1168ac911c13fe7553de04d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Date: Sat, 14 May 2016 10:24:22 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Port autogen.sh to Git 2.4

Problem reported by Michael Brand in:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2016-05/msg00367.html
* autogen.sh (git_config): Don't assume that git rev-parse
groks --git-common-dir.
---
 autogen.sh | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/autogen.sh b/autogen.sh
index 3809942..b1bd86b 100755
--- a/autogen.sh
+++ b/autogen.sh
@@ -277,8 +277,10 @@ git_config ()
 # Get location of Git's common configuration directory.  For older Git
 # versions this is just '.git'.  Newer Git versions support worktrees.
 
-test -e .git && git_common_dir=`git rev-parse --git-common-dir 2>/dev/null` ||
-  git_common_dir=.git
+{ test -e .git &&
+  git_common_dir=`git rev-parse --no-flags --git-common-dir 2>/dev/null` &&
+  test -n "$git_common_dir"
+} || git_common_dir=.git
 hooks=$git_common_dir/hooks
 
 # Check hashes when transferring objects among repositories.
-- 
2.7.4