Solaris install error: didn't get git-init link was [Fwd: Re: The Reposithon! Take 2]

From: Sam Vilain <sam@vilain.net>
Date: Dec 17, 2007, 14:42 UTC
Message-ID: <47668ABB.9000504@vilain.net>

Refer attached ... 1.5.3.6 install, didn't get git-init link to git. Ring any bells?

On Mon, 17 Dec 2007, H.Merijn Brand wrote:

> I don't say porting git to HP-UX was/is easy, but at least I got it building
> in less than four hours without having to depend on other projects. I gave
> up on SVN after three days and not having any runnable part of svn at all.

My experiences on Solaris are about equally painful, but reversed. I ended up hand-editing svn's configure scripts to get them to work at all. It took about a day of on-and-off effort, but it does now seem to work.

Git took about half a day to get to build and install, but alas it doesn't seem to work:

    $ git-clone git://git.utsl.gen.nz/p4-metadata
    /home/doughera/git/bin/git-clone: git-init: command not found
    Usage: /home/doughera/git/bin/git-clone [--template=<template_directory>] [--reference <reference-repo>] [--bare] [-l [-s]] [-q] [-u <upload-pack>] [--origin <name>] [--depth <n>] [-n] <repo> [<dir>]
    $ git --version
    git version 1.5.3.6

Indeed, I have no 'git-init' command anywhere to be found. I have no idea if this is normal. It's probably something simple, but I probably won't have time to investigate until January sometime.

Sigh.

On the other hand, I certainly agree that the discussion has been constructive and positive. Sam's done a wonderful job working on converting the perforce repository and sharing his work with the broader community.

-- 
    Andy Dougherty		doughera@lafayette.edu