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[PATCH 7/8] Makefile: introduce SANE_TOOL_PATH for prepending required elements to PATH

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Brandon Casey <casey@nrlssc.navy.mil>
Date
Jun 5, 2009, 23:36 UTC
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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Some platforms (like SunOS and family) have kept their common binaries at some historical moment in time, and introduced new binaries with modern features in a special location like /usr/xpg4/bin or /usr/ucb. Some of the features provided by these modern binaries are expected and required by git. If the featureful binaries are not in the users path, then git could end up using the less featureful binary and fail.

So provide a mechanism to prepend elements to the users PATH at runtime so the modern binaries will be found.

Signed-off-by: Brandon Casey <drafnel@gmail.com>
---
 Makefile        |   14 ++++++++++++++
 git-sh-setup.sh |    2 ++
 2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 1239a3c..ca09572 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -3,6 +3,11 @@ all::
 
 # Define V=1 to have a more verbose compile.
 #
+# Define SHELL_PATH to a POSIX shell if your /bin/sh is broken.
+#
+# Define SANE_TOOL_PATH to a colon-separated list of paths to prepend
+# to PATH if your tools in /usr/bin are broken.
+#
 # Define SNPRINTF_RETURNS_BOGUS if your are on a system which snprintf()
 # or vsnprintf() return -1 instead of number of characters which would
 # have been written to the final string if enough space had been available.
@@ -710,6 +715,7 @@ ifeq ($(uname_S),SunOS)
 	NEEDS_SOCKET = YesPlease
 	NEEDS_NSL = YesPlease
 	SHELL_PATH = /bin/bash
+	SANE_TOOL_PATH = /usr/xpg6/bin:/usr/xpg4/bin
 	NO_STRCASESTR = YesPlease
 	NO_MEMMEM = YesPlease
 	NO_MKDTEMP = YesPlease
@@ -881,6 +887,13 @@ endif
 -include config.mak.autogen
 -include config.mak
 
+ifdef SANE_TOOL_PATH
+BROKEN_PATH_FIX = s|^. @@PATH@@|PATH=$(SANE_TOOL_PATH)|
+PATH := $(SANE_TOOL_PATH):${PATH}
+else
+BROKEN_PATH_FIX = d
+endif
+
 ifeq ($(uname_S),Darwin)
 	ifndef NO_FINK
 		ifeq ($(shell test -d /sw/lib && echo y),y)
@@ -1291,6 +1304,7 @@ $(patsubst %.sh,%,$(SCRIPT_SH)) : % : %.sh
 	    -e 's|@SHELL_PATH@|$(SHELL_PATH_SQ)|' \
 	    -e 's/@@GIT_VERSION@@/$(GIT_VERSION)/g' \
 	    -e 's/@@NO_CURL@@/$(NO_CURL)/g' \
+	    -e '/^# @@PATH@@/$(BROKEN_PATH_FIX)' \
 	    $@.sh >$@+ && \
 	chmod +x $@+ && \
 	mv $@+ $@
diff --git a/git-sh-setup.sh b/git-sh-setup.sh
index 8382339..7802581 100755
--- a/git-sh-setup.sh
+++ b/git-sh-setup.sh
@@ -11,6 +11,8 @@
 # exporting it.
 unset CDPATH
 
+# @@PATH@@:$PATH
+
 die() {
 	echo >&2 "$@"
 	exit 1
-- 
1.6.3.1.24.g152f4
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  1. 0/8 enhancing builds on SolarisBrandon Casey, Jun 5, 2009
  2. 1/8 Makefile: use /usr/ucb/install on SunOS platforms rather than ginstallBrandon Casey, Jun 5, 2009
  3. 2/8 Makefile: add NEEDS_RESOLV to optionally add -lresolv to compile argumentsBrandon Casey, Jun 5, 2009
  4. 3/8 diff-delta.c: "diff.h" is not a required includeBrandon Casey, Jun 5, 2009
  5. 4/8 On Solaris choose the OLD_ICONV iconv() declaration based on the UNIX specBrandon Casey, Jun 5, 2009
  6. 5/8 git-compat-util.h: tweak the way _XOPEN_SOURCE is set on SolarisBrandon Casey, Jun 5, 2009
  7. 6/8 Makefile: define __sun__ on SunOSBrandon Casey, Jun 5, 2009
  8. 7/8 Makefile: introduce SANE_TOOL_PATH for prepending required elements to PATHBrandon Casey, Jun 5, 2009
  9. 8/8 Makefile: add section for SunOS 5.7Brandon Casey, Jun 5, 2009
  10. Jeff KingJun 8, 2009
  11. Brandon CaseyJun 8, 2009
  12. Jeff KingJun 8, 2009
  13. Brandon CaseyJun 8, 2009
  14. Junio C HamanoJun 8, 2009
  15. Jeff KingJun 8, 2009
  16. Brandon CaseyJun 8, 2009
  17. Brandon CaseyJun 9, 2009
  18. 3/8 diff-delta.c: "delta.h" is not a required includeBrandon Casey, Jun 6, 2009
  19. Nicolas PitreJun 6, 2009
  20. Brandon CaseyJun 6, 2009
  21. Nicolas PitreJun 6, 2009
  22. Brandon CaseyJun 6, 2009
  23. git-compat-util.h: avoid using c99 flex array feature with Sun compiler 5.8Brandon Casey, Jun 8, 2009
  24. Jakub NarebskiJun 6, 2009
  25. Brandon CaseyJun 7, 2009
  26. configure: test whether -lresolv is neededRalf Wildenhues, Jun 7, 2009
  27. Brandon CaseyJun 5, 2009
  28. Junio C HamanoJun 6, 2009
  29. Brandon CaseyJun 6, 2009
  30. Jeff KingJun 8, 2009

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