Re: [PATCH] Add Tru64/OSF1 support in Makefile

From: Tor Arntsen <tor@spacetec.no>
Date: May 26, 2010, 08:19 UTC
Message-ID: <AANLkTilYb6iPHSdttCjho92Jly3vl5XH-4BM9UK36xM4@mail.gmail.com>
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On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 22:45, Brandon Casey <brandon.casey.ctr@nrlssc.navy.mil> wrote:

>
> Hi Tor, I've been out of town for a few weeks...

No problem, thanks for reviewing the log.

> On 04/23/2010 09:59 AM, Tor Arntsen wrote:

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>> Below is a diff between the output from a run on Linux and the Tru64 one
>> (instead of a full log), just to illustrate which ones failed.
>
> I skimmed through the log and it looks like the failures are mostly
> related to tar and iconv.  Possibly your tar is too old, or does not
> support some option that git is using.  The iconv failures related
> to ISO8859-1 are a little strange since that encoding is very
> common.  Some implementations of iconv can produce a listing of the
> encodings that are supported.  You could check for support for ISO
> 8859-1.

I have re-run everything after installing GNU tar, and that fixed up the tar-related problems. There's still an iconv issue, and I'm going to look at it at some point - for now however I suspect that it might be a local problem caused by mixing native (/usr) and local (/usr/local) versions of iconv.

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> Many of the other differences are just because some tests were skipped
> on the Tru64 run that were not skipped on Linux.  The tests were skipped
> because some required binary was missing, like gpg or cvs.
>
> Looks like you were able to run most of the test suite which is good.

Yep, it looks pretty good (after the re-run), except for the iconv problem.

I haven't posted any update of my Tru64 Makefile patch yet, I'm waiting to see if Gary Vaughan's portability patches are accepted - they included a Tru64 update to the Makefile, essentially a subset of my patch, enough to make Tru64 build with ./configure. If his patch gets included I can send a new patch which will add the necessary stuff to make it build also without ./configure.

-Tor