Re: patch for AIX system

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Nov 18, 2010, 17:44 UTC
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Tor Arntsen <tor@spacetec.no> writes:

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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.

Hmm, would that suggest that it might be a better idea to just mention "install coreutils RPM from the IBM Toolbox" somewhere in INSTALL instead of the INSTALLDIR patch, i.e. not support "bsdinstall/mkdir -p" way but require "coreutils"? Or is it an unconditionally better way of life for AIX folks, even for the ones who do have it installed, not to rely on the "coreutils" package?

If the answers to the above two questions are both "no", then we would need to make the patch more complicated (i.e. detect if "coreutils" is there and if not use "bsdinstall/mkdir -p" way), which I'd rather avoid if we do not have to.