Re: Git 1.3.2 on Solaris

From: Stefan Pfetzing <stefan.pfetzing@gmail.com>
Date: May 17, 2006, 09:06 UTC
Message-ID: <f3d7535d0605170206y76e24f25w305a688d32f4a0a1@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vpsidhx79.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Hi Junio,

2006/5/17, Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>:

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> "Stefan Pfetzing" <stefan.pfetzing@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > 1.  fix every single shellscript automatically during the build phase
> > 2.  setup a dir which contains symlinks to the "right" binaries and
> > put that dir into PATH.
>
> You forgot 3.
>
>   3.  rewrite scripts so that they would require only POSIX;
>       for ones that do need GNU extended coreutils to do in
>       shell, find other ways, perhaps rewriting the stuff in C.

Yes, thats right, but this can only be a long term goal, because I guess this will take significantly longer. - even "tr" and "diff" behave different on Solaris.

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> I am not looking forward to do the g- prefix in the main
> Makefile.  The approach to have symlink forest under gitexecdir
> (<Pine.LNX.4.64.0605162047380.10823@g5.osdl.org> by Linus) is
> more palatable, and I am not opposed to host a script to do so
> under contrib/notgnu perhaps.

Hm, gitexecdir is also the path where git is installed, right? So if I'd install git with pkgsrc it will be /usr/pkg/bin, right? - If so, putting symlinks there _will_ break pkgsrc.

bye

Stefan

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