RE: [PATCH] fix 'make test' for HP NonStop

> From: Jeff King [mailto:peff@peff.net]
> Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2012 12:49 PM
> To: Joachim Schmitz
> Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix 'make test' for HP NonStop
> 
> On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 12:21:44PM +0200, Joachim Schmitz wrote:
> 
> > > > +	# for 'make test'
> > > > +	# some test don't work with /bin/diff, some fail with /bin/tar
> > > > +	# some need bash, and some need ${prefix}/bin in PATH first
> > > > +	SHELL_PATH=${prefix}/bin/bash
> > > > +	SANE_TOOL_PATH=${prefix}/bin
> > >
> > > This feels a little too specific to go in our Makefile. Do we have any
> > > reason to think that where you are installing git is going to be the
> > > same place you have bash and other sane tools? Wouldn't this mean that
> > > things work when you run "make" but mysteriously break when you run
> > > "make prefix=/my/local/install/of/git"?
> >
> > Well, "make" won't break (I think), but "make test" very well might.
> 
> Sure.
> 
> > Well, so far all OpenSource packages ported to HP NonStop (at least
> > the ones on ituglib.connect-community.org) use prefix=/usr/local and
> > there is no intention to change that.
> 
> But then I would think using /usr/local would be the sane thing to put
> there, if that is the closest to "standard" for your platform.