Re: make install fails because GNU tar needed

From: dev <dev@cor0.com>
Date: Aug 28, 2014, 15:08 UTC
Message-ID: <502287515.26012.1409238536022.JavaMail.vpopmail@webmail2.networksolutionsemail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20140828145056.GA26855@peff.net>

On August 28, 2014 at 10:50 AM Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:

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> On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 10:16:48AM -0400, dev wrote:
>
> > # gmake CFLAGS="$CFLAGS" LDFLAGS="$LD_OPTIONS" NEEDS_LIBICONV=Yes \
> > > SHELL_PATH=/usr/local/bin/bash \
> > > SANE_TOOL_PATH=/usr/local/bin \
> > > USE_LIBPCRE=1 LIBPCREDIR=/usr/local CURLDIR=/usr/local \
> > > EXPATDIR=/usr/local NEEDS_LIBINTL_BEFORE_LIBICONV=1 \
> > > NEEDS_SOCKET=1 NEEDS_RESOLV=1 USE_NSEC=1 \
>
> As an aside, you may be able to drop some of these defines. For
> example,
> we set NEEDS_SOCKET automatically on Solaris. See the "SunOS" section
> of
> config.mak.uname for the complete set of defaults.

I figured as much but for the moment I am flailing along towards a nice working build first and then pray to the gods of complication for some kindness and simplification. :-)

Thus far the build process seems to work fine. I have no idea if I can use SSH protocol as I would need to set up a dummy to test it. Everything else seems to work. I think. :-\

> > Is there some magic somewhere to use ordinary POSIX tar ?
>
> gmake TAR=tar ?

ha .. yeah I guess.

Actually I found a file called GIT-BUILD-OPTIONS :

# cat GIT-BUILD-OPTIONS SHELL_PATH='/usr/local/bin/bash' PERL_PATH='/usr/local/bin/perl' DIFF='diff' PYTHON_PATH='/usr/bin/python' TAR='tar' NO_CURL='' USE_LIBPCRE='1' NO_PERL='' NO_PYTHON='1' NO_UNIX_SOCKETS='' NO_GETTEXT='' GETTEXT_POISON=''

Funny looking options for NO_foo where I would think that a null string indicates that in fact I have foo? Because I do have curl and perl and most likely UNIX_SOCKETS. Regardless, I simply edited that file and three others to stop the search for gtar.

> The default of gtar for Solaris dates back to 2005. There may have
> been
> a reason then that is no longer valid now, or there may be something
> besides "make install" which uses a more advanced feature.

Yes, I seem to recall that long long ago there were problems with old tar on Solaris 2.5.1 back in the 90's and then it carried forwards up to Solaris 7 or 8. The ultimate POSIX tar as well as tar that can archive or extract anything from anything is Joerg Schilling's star.

   http://sourceforge.net/projects/s-tar/

I use that nearly everywhere that I must ensure all metadata and data gets taken care of correctly and cross platform. However, hell will freeze over before we ever see it included in a distro or UNIX anywhere so for now tar will suffice.

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> > /bin/sh: gtar: /bin/shnot found
> > : gtar: not found
> > gmake[1]: *** [install] Error 1
> > gmake: *** [install] Error 2
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > Also, what is shnot ?
>
> Two messages stepping on each other's toes?

Yeah .. I saw that after I sent the email.

dev