Re: Git 1.3.2 on Solaris

From: Stefan Pfetzing <stefan.pfetzing@gmail.com>
Date: May 17, 2006, 15:08 UTC
Message-ID: <f3d7535d0605170808l21d9f6d0gff1afaa10db17af9@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0605170728520.10823@g5.osdl.org>

Hi Linus,

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

>
> So let me just quote the thing you quoted but apparently didn't read:

[snip]

I did read that.

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> There already _is_ such a directory. It's your "prefix=" directory plus
> "bin".
>
> So what you can do is make sure you compile with
>
>         make prefix=/my/git/installation/prefix
>
> and then install the GNU tools in /my/git/installation/prefix/bin, and
> you're all set.

Ok, if I would do so, my prefix would be /usr/pkg, and the bindir would be /usr/pkg/bin. So I would need to have an xargs and so on symlink in /usr/pkg/bin. But this is simply not acceptable, because it breaks other NetBSD pkgsrc scripts.

Besides that, installing git to a different location is not an option for me, because I want to have git packaged by pkgsrc.

I suggest Junio's solution will work (gitexecdir) but I have to try that later today.

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> At most you might have to make some of the tests use "git xyzzy" instead
> of "git-xyzzy", and run "make install" before "make test".
>
> It wouldn't be wonderful, but hey, I've given alternatives (like using the
> GNU tools by default, or helping make git more portable in the first
> place). So it's a hack.

Yes I know, as far as I can, I'm willing to help with this.

bye

dreamind

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