Re: git 1.6.1 on AIX 5.3

From: Perry Smith <pedzsan@gmail.com>
Date: Jan 26, 2009, 22:57 UTC
Message-ID: <9E98493A-B17A-4905-8BEA-3E0B837961D6@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <e2b179460901261432r601fa006iaf04fc42487e7235@mail.gmail.com>

On Jan 26, 2009, at 4:32 PM, Mike Ralphson wrote:

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> 2009/1/26 Jeff King <peff@peff.net>:
>> [cc-ing Mike Ralphson, our local AIX expert]
>
> Bless you!
>
>> On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 02:02:15PM -0600, Perry Smith wrote:
>>
>>> I tried building git 1.6.1 on AIX 5.3 as an "out of tree" build  
>>> and it
>>> does not seem to be set up to do out of tree builds.  If that is not
>>> true, please let me know.
>>>
>>> The install process wants to call install with a -d option.  AIX  
>>> has two
>>> install programs but they are pretty old -- neither takes a -d  
>>> option.
>>>
>>> Is there a GNU install program I can get?  I've not been able to  
>>> locate
>>> one.
>>
>> It's in GNU coreutils:
>>
>> http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/
>>
>> I don't know what Mike uses to install on AIX; you can see his config
>> setup here:
>>
>> http://repo.or.cz/w/git/gitbuild.git?a=tree;f=mr/aix;hb=platform
>>
>> but I don't see any override of install.
>
> I've got the AIX Toolbox for Linux applications[1] installed and ahead
> of /bin and /usr/bin on my PATH. Beware that some of these don't
> function as well as the stock AIX utilities and should normally be
> removed. I've posted about this on what is ostensibly a blog but which
> is really just a post-it note I'm less likely to lose[2].
>
> Failing that, many programs which are primarily configured using
> autoconf will ship with an install shell script which you can co-opt,
> some apache stuff does too[3].
>
> Any other questions, don't hesitate to ask.
>
> Mike
>
> [1] http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/power/software/aix/linux/index.html
>
> [2] http://mermade.blogspot.com/2008/04/aix-toolbox.html
>
> [3] http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/tcl/websh/trunk/src/unix/install- 
> sh

Thanks guys. I picked up coreutils version 7. I didn't install them but just moved ginstall over to /usr/local/bin.

A few other comments: I had to add in the --without-tcltk flag. I don't have tcl installed but the config did not autodetect that it was not present.

I can't tell if make test is happy or not. The output looks like its happy but the exit code is 2.

Below is my "configure" script if anyone is interested.

#!/usr/bin/env bash

export CONFIG_SHELL=/usr/local/bin/bash export LDFLAGS='-L/usr/local/lib -L/usr/local/ssl/lib' export CFLAGS='-I/usr/local/include -I/usr/local/ssl/include' export CC=gcc echo CONFIG_SHELL set to ${CONFIG_SHELL}

${CONFIG_SHELL} ../../src/git-1.6.1/configure --without-tcltk

# # Note that to install you need to do: # make INSTALL=ginstall install # to use GNU's install program