Re: [RFH] NetBSD 6?

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Jan 3, 2013, 02:15 UTC
Message-ID: <7vd2xnypt6.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <rmipq1numzj.fsf@fnord.ir.bbn.com>

Greg Troxel <gdt@ir.bbn.com> writes:

> I realize a README.foo file for N different systems could be clutter,
> but having these checked in would provide the concise help that people
> on any of those platforms need.

Our Makefile documents knobs people on various platforms can tweak (PYTHON_PATH and OLD_ICONV are two examples of them), sets default values for them based on $(uname -S), then includes config.mak file the user can optionally create to override these platform defaults. This infrastructure is used across platforms, not just for NetBSD.

The part shown in the patch was to update the platform default for NetBSD. The setting we have been shipping in our Makefile seemed to be different from what I needed on my NetBSD 6 install, and I was wondering if we have no real users of Git on the platorm (which would explain why we didn't get any complaints or patches to update this part). Or there are some optional packages all real NetBSD users install, but being a NetBSD newbie I didn't, that makes the values I showed in the patch inappropriate for them (e.g. Perhaps there is a mechanism other than pkgsrc that installs perl and python under /usr/bin? Perhaps an optional libi18n package that gives iconv(3) with new function signature?), in which case I definitely should not apply that patch to my tree, as it would only be an improvement for one person and a regression for existing users at the same time.