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Johannes Schindelin b0d5c88cca cmake: stop trying to build the reftable and xdiff libraries
In the `en/make-libgit-a` topic branch, more precisely in the commits
f3b4c89d59 (make: delete REFTABLE_LIB, add reftable to LIB_OBJS,
2025-10-02) and cf680cdb95 (make: delete XDIFF_LIB, add xdiff to
LIB_OBJS, 2025-10-02), the strategy to build three static libraries was
rethought, and instead only one static library is now built.

This is good.

However, the CMake definition was not changed accordingly, and now
CMake-based builds fail thusly:

  [...]
  Generating hook-list.h
  CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:122 (string):
    string sub-command REPLACE requires at least four arguments.
  Call Stack (most recent call first):
    CMakeLists.txt:711 (parse_makefile_for_sources)

  CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:122 (string):
    string sub-command REPLACE requires at least four arguments.
  Call Stack (most recent call first):
    CMakeLists.txt:717 (parse_makefile_for_sources)

  -- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!

Fix that by removing the parts that expect the reftable and xdiff
objects to be defined separately in the Makefile, still.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-11-17 14:18:28 -08:00
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2024-04-05 09:49:38 -07:00

Contributed Software

Although these pieces are available as part of the official git
source tree, they are in somewhat different status.  The
intention is to keep interesting tools around git here, maybe
even experimental ones, to give users an easier access to them,
and to give tools wider exposure, so that they can be improved
faster.

I am not expecting to touch these myself that much.  As far as
my day-to-day operation is concerned, these subdirectories are
owned by their respective primary authors.  I am willing to help
if users of these components and the contrib/ subtree "owners"
have technical/design issues to resolve, but the initiative to
fix and/or enhance things _must_ be on the side of the subtree
owners.  IOW, I won't be actively looking for bugs and rooms for
enhancements in them as the git maintainer -- I may only do so
just as one of the users when I want to scratch my own itch.  If
you have patches to things in contrib/ area, the patch should be
first sent to the primary author, and then the primary author
should ack and forward it to me (git pull request is nicer).
This is the same way as how I have been treating gitk, and to a
lesser degree various foreign SCM interfaces, so you know the
drill.

I expect things that start their life in the contrib/ area
to graduate out of contrib/ once they mature, either by becoming
projects on their own, or moving to the toplevel directory.  On
the other hand, I expect I'll be proposing removal of disused
and inactive ones from time to time.

If you have new things to add to this area, please first propose
it on the git mailing list, and after a list discussion proves
there is general interest (it does not have to be a
list-wide consensus for a tool targeted to a relatively narrow
audience -- for example I do not work with projects whose
upstream is svn, so I have no use for git-svn myself, but it is
of general interest for people who need to interoperate with SVN
repositories in a way git-svn works better than git-svnimport),
submit a patch to create a subdirectory of contrib/ and put your
stuff there.

-jc