Re: git 1.6.1 on AIX 5.3

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Jan 28, 2009, 07:01 UTC
Message-ID: <20090128070114.GB19165@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <BAD975AD-323D-4278-8405-0B57E7202797@gmail.com>

On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 07:35:00PM -0600, Perry Smith wrote:

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> Just to be sure we are on the same page.  My directory structure has a
> top/src/git-1.6.1 and top/build/git.1.6.1.  The src/git-1.6.1 is the
> tar ball.  The  build/git-1.6.1 starts out empty.  I cd into it and
> then do: ../../src/git-1.6.1/configure <options>  After this
> completes, you can do "make".

I don't see how this would work without automake support, which git does not have. The configure script just generates a config.mak.autogen file, which is included by the Makefile. So you have no Makefile in your build directory.

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> About 90% of the open source configure / autoconf code out there can
> do this with.  The other 10% you can not.  I like it because when
> things die, its easier to grep around the source tree and I blow away
> the build directory and start back over and I know that I'm starting
> fresh.

Another way of solving the same problem:

  cd untarred-sources
  git init
  git add .
  git commit -m 'pristine sources'

Now you can use "git clean" to clean up cruft, not to mention the usual git stuff like tracking any changes you've made and submitting any patches upstream.

> I get further.  But now test 10 of t0001.sh fails because test_cmp can
> not be found.
>
> Is that a GNU tool?  (I didn't see it in git or coreutils.)

It's a shell function defined in test-lib.sh (which is sourced by all of the test scripts).

-Peff