Re: Compiling git on Solaris. Recipe included.

From: Ben Walton <bwalton@artsci.utoronto.ca>
Date: May 9, 2012, 17:58 UTC
Message-ID: <1336586103-sup-4584@pinkfloyd.chass.utoronto.ca>
In-Reply-To: <CADmdEsnSt5Do+EuJHzfGxNY6aCnGA6AF6fbEETAGpoL6p7Nuwg@mail.gmail.com>

Excerpts from Mark Ashley's message of Tue May 08 23:11:30 -0400 2012:

Hi Mark,

> I'm compiling git on Solaris 10 and 11 SPARC and X86 using the Sun
> Studio 12.x compilers.

I'm building for solaris 9+ at OpenCSW with the studio compilers.

> git doesn't compile out of the box, there are (see below) lots of
> tweaks to have it use open source stuff in /usr/local/* and also to
> pass some of the configure tests for inet_ntop and -lintl.

I use the following patch for -lintl: https://gar.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/gar/csw/mgar/pkg/git/trunk/files/0007-on-solaris-we-need-to-use-lintl-to-allow-the-new-i18.patch

(For some reason, I didn't get around to generalizing it for submission yet.)

The build recipe I'm using (for our build system GAR) is here: https://gar.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/gar/csw/mgar/pkg/git/trunk/Makefile

(There is some baggage in the recipe that needs cleanup, such as old patches that are merged or no longer required, but it builds a nice clean package that passes the test suite.)

Hope that helps.

Thanks -Ben -- Ben Walton Systems Programmer - CHASS University of Toronto C:416.407.5610 | W:416.978.4302