Re: Installing on AIX fails

From: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Date: Jun 4, 2010, 14:28 UTC
Message-ID: <AANLkTikdfXz7lk41czdRZKnnB3xpLFannCaUzSk7tL2_@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTin03pWueh-6001RUrWMBzhn98cNWirSCQJ4s7EN@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 21:22, Dario Rodriguez <soft.d4rio@gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 5:21 PM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
>> What do you mean by "disappears" anyway, was it like $(echo|less), or
>> did it just return with no output? What was the exit code?
>>
>
> 'dissapears'? I will paste my output as is, there are 2 commits, but
> 'git log' simply don't show them if $PAGER is not present:
>
> $ ../git log
> $ echo $?
> 0
> $ PAGER=/bin/cat ../git log
> commit 3274a12f940680612e3bfd3d022a0eab460c0f1f
> Author: usuario tuxedo ####### <tx#####@MachineName.(none)>
> Date:   Thu Jun 3 20:02:23 2010 +0200
>
>    OtherCom
>
> commit acf110f7c878a37e4a5af8499134df28da0e8ab3
> Author: usuario tuxedo ####### <tx#####@MachineName.(none)>
> Date:   Thu Jun 3 20:01:37 2010 +0200
>
>    inicial

That's interesting.

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>> In any case, running git's make test might reveal other problems on
>> AIX worth fixing. Maybe do that and post the results?
>>
>
> The make test execution output is fairly long... do I post it all, or
> attach MIME? However I'm leaving here and I cannot access the server
> until tomorrow...

The best thing would be to post cd t && ./$some_test -d -v for all tests that fail, I guess.

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>>>>> $ /usr/linux/bin/make prefix=$HOME/apps/ NO_OPENSSL=1 NO_TCLTK=1
>>>>> NO_EXPAT=1 PYTHON_PATH=/usr/local/bin/python install
>>>>>
>>>>> [...]
>>>>> install -d -m 755 '/myhomedir/apps/bin'
>>>>> getopt: illegal option -- d
>>>>> Usage: install [-c dira] [-f dirb] [-i] [-m] [-M mode] [-O owner]
>>>>>               [-G group] [-S] [-n dirc] [-o] [-s] file [dirx ...]
>>>>> make: *** [install] Error 2
>>>>>
>>>>> Now the installing process fails because of the AIX 'install' tool and
>>>>> I wonder, can I patch/configure the installing process for AIX? May be
>>>>> a set of utils for building in such systems would help some people.
>>>>
>>>> Does AIX's install have something equivalent to GNU install's -d? The
>>>> -c and -f options look likely from that synopsis.
>>>>
>>>
>>> I don't know since I just use this system for development and testing
>>> (I'm debian user), but let me post the manpage info, for -c and -f:
>>>
>>> -c DirectoryA Installs a new command file in the DirectoryA variable only if
>>> that file does not already exist there. If it finds a copy of File there, it
>>> issues a message and exits without overwriting the file. This flag can be used
>>> alone or with the -s, -M, -O, -G, or -S flag.
>>>
>>> -f DirectoryB Forces installation of File in DirectoryB whether or not File
>>> already exists. If the file being installed does not already exist, the command
>>> sets the permission code and owner of the new file to 755 and bin, respectively.
>>> This flag can be used alone or with the -o,-s, -M, -O, -G, or -S flag.
>>
>> Looks like there's no equivalent to -d. FWIW perl uses a installperl
>> script that also works on AIX. Maybe a similar fallback or default
>> would make sense for Git.
>>
>
> Yes, I installed 'top' on other AIX machine today, and it uses it's
> own install script too... may be it's the best way for systems having
> a poor 'install' tool.
>
>>>>> PD2: I don't know if AIX python path is always /usr/local/bin/python,
>>>>> but I've seen that git Makefiles set /usr/local/bin/python for FreeBSD
>>>>> only:
>>>>>
>>>>> git_remote_helpers/Makefile:
>>>>> ifndef PYTHON_PATH
>>>>>        ifeq ($(uname_S),FreeBSD)
>>>>>                PYTHON_PATH = /usr/local/bin/python
>>>>>        else
>>>>>                PYTHON_PATH = /usr/bin/python
>>>>>        endif
>>>>> endif
>>>>
>>>> That's presumably because Python is most likely installed via the
>>>> ports system on FreeBSD which drops it in /usr/local. How did you
>>>> install Python on AIX? Is it from some IBM package or another method
>>>> that's the most common & standard way to do it on AIX?.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Again, I don't know since I'm not the sysadmin. I just looked for
>>> python and found it's in /usr/local/bin
>>
>> Does using /usr/bin/env python instead work?
>>
>>    $ cat /tmp/py.py
>>    #!/usr/bin/env python
>>    print "hello"
>>    $ /tmp/py.py
>>    hello
>>
>
> Yes, it works... at least the executable is found :P
>
> $ cat temp.py
> #!/usr/bin/env python
> print "hello"
>
> $ ./temp.py
> Could not find platform dependent libraries <exec_prefix>
> Consider setting $PYTHONHOME to <prefix>[:<exec_prefix>]
> hello

That's one reason why I think we should just use /usr/bin/env for perl/python instead of hardcoding it to /usr/bin/{perl,python}. It's more likely to work on systems like AIX.