Re: HP-UX issues (WAS: Re: [RFC] Git User's Survey 2008)
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Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
- Date
- Jul 23, 2008, 21:38 UTC
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On Wed, 23 July 2008, Miklos Vajna wrote:
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> Being more constructive, what a user using HP-UX is supported to do? > > 1) Use the patched git from HP. > > 2) Have coreutils installed. (But then I think it would be good to list > this dependency in INSTALL.)
It would be good idea, although "POSIX-compliant shells" implies coreutils somewhat; shell scripts usually do require some utilities, like sed, grep, cat, test etc.
> 3) Patch git to use automake's install-sh. (Would such a patch be ever > accepted?)
I think it would. It would allow us also to uncomment the AC_PROG_INSTALL line in configure.ac file to find 'install' automatically (autoconf requires having install.sh or install-sh fallback in the sources).
The problem is coming up with minimal yet portable (at least as portable as git itself) fallback install.sh script.
-- Jakub Narebski Poland