{"thread":{"id":"12222","subject":"git on Solaris?","startedAt":"2008-02-20T21:57:47Z","lastAt":"2008-02-20T22:59:20Z","messageCount":3,"participants":["Daniel Quinlan","Shawn O. Pearce","Glenn Rempe"],"isPatch":false,"patchVersion":null,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"69406","messageId":"200802202158.m1KLw2wM014330@rs40.luxsci.com","threadId":"12222","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"git on Solaris?","fromName":"Daniel Quinlan","fromEmail":"danq@brtt.com","sentAt":"2008-02-20T21:57:47Z","receivedAt":"2008-02-20T21:57:47Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"danq@brtt.com","avatar":null},"body":"I'm investigating moving to git for our development, but I'm having \ndifficulty getting a functional\nversion on Solaris. I've looked through a lot of web pages, and seen \na discussion of some of\nthe problems a few years ago, and I see that at least some of the \nchanges proposed then (moving\nfrom shell scripts to c) have been implemented.\n\nHowever, it's by no means straightforward to compile git on solaris, \nno one seems to provide\na compiled version (eg, sunfreeware.com), and I haven't found any \nclear cookbook description of how to\ncompile, test and install git on the solaris (10) platform.\n\nSo my questions are:\n\n* Is there a set of instructions for Solaris somewhere that I've missed?\n\n* Is anyone actually using git on Solaris?\n\n Right now, it appears that gnu make and bash are both required to \nmake git, and perhaps a bunch\n of other gnu utilities.\n\n* Once made, do the git scripts require gnu utilities to work \nproperly? I'm a bit leery of putting the\n GNU utilities ahead of the solaris ones in my path (and everyone \nelses).\n\nThanks,\n-- danq\n"},{"id":"69418","messageId":"20080220225208.GY24004@spearce.org","threadId":"12222","inReplyTo":"200802202158.m1KLw2wM014330@rs40.luxsci.com","subject":"Re: git on Solaris?","fromName":"Shawn O. Pearce","fromEmail":"spearce@spearce.org","sentAt":"2008-02-20T22:52:08Z","receivedAt":"2008-02-20T22:52:08Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"spearce@spearce.org","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/34844?v=4"},"body":"Daniel Quinlan wrote:\n> However, it's by no means straightforward to compile git on solaris, \n> no one seems to provide\n> a compiled version (eg, sunfreeware.com), and I haven't found any \n> clear cookbook description of how to\n> compile, test and install git on the solaris (10) platform.\n> \n> So my questions are:\n> \n> * Is there a set of instructions for Solaris somewhere that I've missed?\n> \n> * Is anyone actually using git on Solaris?\n\nYes. I run it on Solaris 9 and on Solaris 10, SPARC editions anyway.\nI haven't personally tested it on the x86 Solaris version yet but\nI don't expect any major differences from the SPARC edition.\n \n> Right now, it appears that gnu make and bash are both required to \n> make git, and perhaps a bunch\n> of other gnu utilities.\n\nAt least GNU make is required to compile Git. This is available\npretty readily, and also builds fairly easy out of the box as\nsource code if (for some reason) you cannot install a version from\nsunfreeware.com. Some little voice in the back of my head thinks it\nmay also be available out of the box on Solaris 10 but I'm not sure.\n\n> * Once made, do the git scripts require gnu utilities to work \n> properly? I'm a bit leery of putting the\n> GNU utilities ahead of the solaris ones in my path (and everyone \n> elses).\n\nEither the GNU utilties or /usr/xpg4/bin needs to be early in your\nPATH so that Git can pick up tools from there. I think I'm actually\nbuilding Git with a config.mak along the lines of:\n\n\t$ cat - >config.mak\n\tSHELL=/usr/xpg4/bin/sh\n\tSHELL_PATH=$(SHELL)\n\t^D\n\nand then ensuring users have /usr/xpg4/bin very early in their PATH\nenvironment variable.\n\nIt does manage to build with both gcc and the Solaris workshop\ncompilers, so about the only GNU program really necessary to get\ngit built is GNU make. Of course I'm only talking about the really\ncore functionality; tools like git-p4, git-svn, gitk, git-gui will\nrequire support beyond that (Python, Perl SVN bindings, Tcl/Tk...).\n\n-- \nShawn.\n"},{"id":"69419","messageId":"loom.20080220T224704-454@post.gmane.org","threadId":"12222","inReplyTo":"200802202158.m1KLw2wM014330@rs40.luxsci.com","subject":"Re: git on Solaris?","fromName":"Glenn Rempe","fromEmail":"glenn@rempe.us","sentAt":"2008-02-20T22:59:20Z","receivedAt":"2008-02-20T22:59:20Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"glenn@rempe.us","avatar":"https://gravatar.com/avatar/5febe06f1feb5a86bed5aee7b660b18f010bb0b00c48e91af84c2e179e344c50?d=mp&s=160"},"body":"\nDaniel Quinlan brtt.com> writes:\n\n> \n> I'm investigating moving to git for our development, but I'm having \n> difficulty getting a functional\n> version on Solaris. \n\n\nI am using Git on OpenSolaris (a Joyent accelerator). I found the process\nof compiling Git on Solaris impossible to figure out myself as well. \nThe solution I found lay in installing Git from a package that \nJoyent provides which has been working well for me deploying \nRails apps to Joyent using Capistrano and Git.\n\nI did the following:\n\nOn my accelerator I downloaded this entire package dir to \nmy local home dir:\n\nhttp://pkgsrc.joyent.com/2007Q3/All/\n\nI copied the whole thing recursively with this command:\n\nwget -q -r -nc http://pkgsrc.joyent.com/2007Q3/All/\n\nThen:\n\nsudo /opt/local/sbin/pkg_add \\\n~/pkgsrc.joyent.com/2007Q3/All/scmgit-1.5.3.2.tgz\n\nYou might be able to deduce what was done to get it working by \ndigging into the scmgit package file.\n\nHere is a wiki page with instructions for compiling Git on solaris, but I could \nnot get them to work reliably (I could compile but tests would not pass).\n\nhttp://discuss.joyent.com/viewtopic.php?pid=145354\n\nI too would love to find a way to do a simple compile and install \nsimilar to what I do on OS X.\n\nGlenn\n"}]}