Re: Git 1.3.2 on Solaris

From: Stefan Pfetzing <stefan.pfetzing@gmail.com>
Date: May 17, 2006, 08:05 UTC
Message-ID: <f3d7535d0605170105j2a6942cfh5a5a8a0d6153046f@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0605162047380.10823@g5.osdl.org>

Hi Linus,

2006/5/17, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>:

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> On Tue, 16 May 2006, Jason Riedy wrote:
> >
> > But for recommending and using git on these systems _now_...
>
> Yes. For that, I would literally suggest having people install the GNU
> tools (and/or a recent enough perl) somewhere early in the path.
>
> If you use the git wrapper, for example, you can already depend on the
> fact that it will prepend the git installation directory to the path, so
> while the GNU tools might not _normally_ be on the path, if you put them
> in the same directory as your git install, you'll automatically get them
> as long as you use the "git cmd" format (rather than the "git-cmd"
> format).

Well I guess for my pkgsrc environment this won't work. I already (quite some time ago) tried to have gnu coreutils, findutils and diffutils installed without the g prefix. This broke several things on NetBSD and on Solaris.

So I'd prefer a solution where one could set one flag for the Makefile of git, and git would check for the g prefix, create somewhere a directory with symlinks to the "real" gnu binaries and put it into $PATH upon startup of every git c-program or shellscript.

I suggest having these gnu "tools" dependancies removed can only be a long term goal.

bye

dreamind

P.S.: I had to re-sent this mail, somehow gmail did put html crap into it.
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