From: Stefan Pfetzing Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 08:05:39 GMT Subject: Re: Git 1.3.2 on Solaris Message-ID: In-Reply-To: Hi Linus, 2006/5/17, Linus Torvalds : > > 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. -- http://www.dreamind.de/ Oroborus and Debian GNU/Linux Developer.