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Re: [PATCH/RFC] Fix for default pager

From
TATor Arntsen <tor@spacetec.no>
Date
Jun 10, 2010, 09:24 UTC
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<4C10AF43.5050708@spacetec.no>
In-Reply-To
<20100610085952.GA8269@coredump.intra.peff.net>
On 06/10/10 10:59, Jeff King wrote:
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> On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 10:48:31AM +0200, Tor Arntsen wrote:
> 
>> That looks good to me.
> 
> OK, here it is with a commit message. Other systems might want the same,
> I guess (Solaris, IRIX?). I'm cc'ing Brandon, who might have some input.
> 
> Note that this is completely untested by me, as all of my AIX boxen have
> gone away in the past few months (yay!).
I did a re-build and test. Everything works fine.
Tested-by: Tor Arntsen <tor@spacetec.no>
-Tor
-- >8 --
Subject: [PATCH] Makefile: default pager on AIX to "more"

AIX doesn't ship with "less" by default, and their "more" is more featureful than average, so the latter is a more sensible choice. People who really want less can set the compile-time option themselves, or users can set $PAGER.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
---
 Makefile |    1 +
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 34b7dd5..6ad0aca 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -930,6 +930,7 @@ ifeq ($(uname_S),NetBSD)
 	HAVE_PATHS_H = YesPlease
 endif
 ifeq ($(uname_S),AIX)
+	DEFAULT_PAGER = more
 	NO_STRCASESTR=YesPlease
 	NO_MEMMEM = YesPlease
 	NO_MKDTEMP = YesPlease
-- 1.7.1.514.g71ed8 
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  4. Jeff KingJun 8, 2010
  5. Dario RodriguezJun 8, 2010
  6. Johannes SixtJun 8, 2010
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  12. Andreas EricssonJun 8, 2010
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  14. Miles BaderJun 9, 2010
  15. Jeff KingJun 10, 2010
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  17. Jeff KingJun 10, 2010
  18. Tor ArntsenJun 10, 2010
  19. Dario RodriguezJun 10, 2010
  20. Junio C HamanoJun 10, 2010
  21. Brandon CaseyJun 15, 2010
  22. Tor ArntsenJun 15, 2010
  23. Nazri RamliyJun 16, 2010
  24. Jeff KingJun 16, 2010
  25. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonJun 9, 2010
  26. Jeff KingJun 8, 2010
  27. Johannes SixtJun 8, 2010
  28. Dario RodriguezJun 8, 2010
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