From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 08:28:26 GMT
Subject: Re: Git 1.3.2 on Solaris
Message-ID: <7vpsidhx79.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <f3d7535d0605161652n3b2ec033r874336082755e728@mail.gmail.com>

"Stefan Pfetzing" <stefan.pfetzing@gmail.com> writes:

> 1.  fix every single shellscript automatically during the build phase
> 2.  setup a dir which contains symlinks to the "right" binaries and
> put that dir into PATH.

You forgot 3.

  3.  rewrite scripts so that they would require only POSIX;
      for ones that do need GNU extended coreutils to do in
      shell, find other ways, perhaps rewriting the stuff in C.

I am not looking forward to do the g- prefix in the main
Makefile.  The approach to have symlink forest under gitexecdir
(<Pine.LNX.4.64.0605162047380.10823@g5.osdl.org> by Linus) is
more palatable, and I am not opposed to host a script to do so
under contrib/notgnu perhaps.