Re: patch for AIX system

From: Norbert Nemec <norbert@nemec-online.de>
Date: Nov 18, 2010, 10:44 UTC
Message-ID: <4CE503A6.6060208@Nemec-online.de>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=94zL-nuBeGcrAdWVBu6VTuqX3xcM9oGNNUwvQ@mail.gmail.com>

On 11/18/2010 10:13 AM, Tor Arntsen wrote:

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> On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 18:51, Junio C Hamano<gitster@pobox.com>  wrote:
>> I'd defer this section to AIX experts; I've always assumed that people
>> on non-gnu platforms used ginstall, but perhaps AIX doesn't have one?
> All my AIX systems have the coreutils RPM from the IBM Toolbox
> installed (extra CD, or, these days, from ftp.software.ibm.com), so I
> never ran into the incompatible install issue.
> However, for those without coreutils a patch to make installbsd work
> (with comments from Junio taken into account) would be reasonable I
> guess. Particularly if the patch could be made so that it's easy
> enough to switch to coreutils install if you wish to.

A new version of the patch is in preparation.

Indeed - I don't have root access on the machine in question, so installing a RPM is not an option. Apart from that - keeping a dependency on coreutils just to have ginstall available does not seem such a good idea. Anyway - the patch allows changing to ginstall simply by changing the INSTALLDIR variable.

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