Re: [PATCH 0/5] some shell portability fixes

From: Mike Ralphson <mike.ralphson@gmail.com>
Date: Nov 7, 2007, 14:17 UTC
Message-ID: <e2b179460711070617h7e9af64egcde5122808a4d924@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0711062324590.4362@racer.site>

Junio C Hamano wrote on Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 09:46:35PM CET:

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> [2/5] Gaah, AIX sed X-<.  I am not opposed to this patch but
>       would want to get Yays from people with non GNU sed.  Is
>       busybox sed good enough to grok our scripts these days?
>       Please ask help and collect Acks at least from folks on
>       Solaris, MacOS, FBSD, and OBSD.

On Nov 6, 2007 11:25 PM, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:

> As Junio commented in the part you did not quote, there are better shells
> in Solaris.  Use those.

Equally GNU sed is available as a drop-in rpm for AIX. I wonder if it would be worth adding Makefile support for a PATH prefix for the git scripts, so they could prepend (in this case) something like /opt/freeware/bin or /usr/linux/bin ?

In our AIX environment many GNU tools are installed but I can't guarantee they come first in the paths of the git users.

I'm willing to work up a patch if there's any interest.

Mike