Re: Installing on AIX fails

From: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Date: Jun 3, 2010, 15:41 UTC
Message-ID: <AANLkTilsQaMQyDP_od2NrfwIV7gvoD3R-yKNlMJjVKCA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinKjEBkn-9ajO4QXyHqY0EOQBGPRgNREaC_p_vQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 15:32, Dario Rodriguez <soft.d4rio@gmail.com> wrote:

> and it all works, with angels singing and everything... a testing repo
> works fine for a test drive without installing, excepting 'git log'
> that just don't display anything.

How about PAGER=/bin/cat git log? If that works what's your pager, and do other git commands that use the pager (like git show) work or fail?

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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.

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> 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?.

If so the Makefile needs a test for AIX similar to the FreeBSD one.