From: Chris Larson Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2007 06:09:08 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] Mention 'cpio' dependency in INSTALL Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <7v1wcdjbq6.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> On 10/2/07, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Johan Herland writes: > > > reveals that cpio is not mentioned anywhere in the documentation, > > nor in the requirements section of the INSTALL file. > > Thanks. > > We use many other tools that are typically found in bog-standard > UNIX environments, like sed, echo, cat, sort, etc. and we do not > list them in the INSTALL file (nor we would want to). cpio used > to be in the "bog standard" category but perhaps Linux distros > do not install it by default, so it is worth listing it there. > > Are there other commands we rely on that may not be universally > installed? I myself consider "cut" to be in the category, but > other than that I do not think of anything offhand. I'd think it might be a good idea to list any utilities used that aren't in, say, the Single Unix Specification, for example. -- Chris Larson - clarson at kergoth dot com Software Engineer - MontaVista - clarson at mvista dot com Core Developer/Architect - TSLib, BitBake, OpenEmbedded, OpenZaurus