Re: git 1.6.1 on AIX 5.3

From: Mike Ralphson <mike.ralphson@gmail.com>
Date: Jan 27, 2009, 10:10 UTC
Message-ID: <e2b179460901270210q69fe1e42xb801553e4e9005e9@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <9E98493A-B17A-4905-8BEA-3E0B837961D6@gmail.com>

2009/1/26 Perry Smith <pedzsan@gmail.com>:

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> Thanks guys.  I picked up coreutils version 7.   I didn't
> install them but just moved ginstall over to /usr/local/bin.
>
> A few other comments:  I had to add in the --without-tcltk flag.  I don't
> have tcl installed but the config did not autodetect that it was not present.

Yup, I usually build with NO_TCLTK=YesPlease in my config.mak, which you can see from the link Peff posted.

When you said 'out of tree builds' I thought you meant using the AIX defaults in the Makefile without running ./configure, but it seems not, you meant is a clone of the tree buildable by itself or are only release snapshots buildable. Sorry.

./configure is (deliberately) a second-class citizen in the world of git, and may still get you a slightly suboptimal build compared with the defaults on platforms such as AIX... e.g. it doesn't test for performance-related switches such as INTERNAL_QSORT. If you have run configure, there's some file you need to blow away to get back to a non-autoconf world... is it config.mak.autogen?

Despite that, your problem with --without-tcltk falling back to wish, but not falling back if that isn't installed does look like something we should fix, as per Peff's mail.

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> I can't tell if make test is happy or not.  The output looks like its happy
> but the exit code is 2.
>
> Below is my "configure" script if anyone is interested.
>
> #!/usr/bin/env bash
>
> export CONFIG_SHELL=/usr/local/bin/bash
> export LDFLAGS='-L/usr/local/lib -L/usr/local/ssl/lib'
> export CFLAGS='-I/usr/local/include -I/usr/local/ssl/include'
> export CC=gcc
> echo CONFIG_SHELL set to ${CONFIG_SHELL}
>
> ${CONFIG_SHELL} ../../src/git-1.6.1/configure --without-tcltk
>
> #
> # Note that to install you need to do:
> # make INSTALL=ginstall install
> # to use GNU's install program

I build with SHELL_PATH={path}/bash as well. If I don't, the test suite exits after t0000-basic.sh with an unexpected error despite passing all the tests.

gmake -C t/ all
gmake[1]: Entering directory `/usr/local/src/gitbuild/t'
rm -f -r test-results
gmake aggregate-results-and-cleanup
gmake[2]: Entering directory `/usr/local/src/gitbuild/t'
*** t0000-basic.sh ***
* passed all remaining 40 test(s)
FATAL: Unexpected exit with code 0
gmake[2]: *** [t0000-basic.sh] Error 1
gmake[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/gitbuild/t'
gmake[1]: *** [all] Error 2
gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/gitbuild/t'
gmake: *** [test] Error 2

Is that what you're seeing? There's many more test scripts than that 8-)

With GIT_SKIP_TESTS='t3900 t3901 t5100.[12] t8005' (to omit some cases not handled by the version of iconv I have access to on all the AIX boxes I deploy to) the test suit runs to completion on AIX 5.3 for me.

BTW Are you running AIX's make or GNU make?

Mike