From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 17:24:28 GMT
Subject: Re: git diff looping?
Message-ID: <20090616172428.GA18118@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <3ae83b000906161016k4927a91cke86d6c4aa087a590@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 10:16:39AM -0700, John Bito wrote:

> The Solaris 10 server here isn't set up to build git.  git/Makefile
> isn't compatible with /usr/ccs/bin/make. Is it desired to have a
> Makefile that's portable to the Sun tools?

No, the Makefile is hopelessly GNU, and that is intentional: the subset
of make that is portable means there are a lot of things you just can't
do. I think it was decided long ago that it wasn't worth trying to
support non-gmake.

-Peff