From: Michael Felt Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2016 22:44:29 GMT Subject: Re: build issues on AIX - aka non-GNU environment, no gnu grep, no gcc Message-ID: In-Reply-To: Try again, reply all this time... On 12-Sep-16 22:24, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Michael Felt writes: > >> I had a couple of issues when packaging git for AIX >> a) option -Wall by default - works fine with gcc I am sure, but not so >> well when gcc is not your compiler > That is expected. As you said, it is merely "by default" and there > are mechanisms like config.mak provided for people to override them. > >> b) needs a special (GNU) grep argument (-a from memory). This I >> resolved by downloading and packaging GNU grep. However, I hope this >> has not introduced a new dependency. > Read the Makefile and find SANE_TEXT_GREP, perhaps? Ah - read the manual heh?. Generally, I just download, unpack, and run configure. I do not mind needing an extra tool - as long as it is only for the build. And, since you have something about it in your (still unread) install Notes - it has not slipped in by accident. > > Thanks for helping to spread Git to minority platforms. The link is: http://www.aixtools.net/index.php/git I do not use it much (I prefer to package "distributed" src tarballs, but when testing a potential fix - git can be extremely useful! All in all, thanks for an easy to port to a "minority" platform!