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Re: build issues on AIX - aka non-GNU environment, no gnu grep, no gcc

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Sep 12, 2016, 20:24 UTC
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Michael Felt <aixtools@gmail.com> writes:
> I had a couple of issues when packaging git for AIX
> a) option -Wall by default - works fine with gcc I am sure, but not so
> well when gcc is not your compiler

That is expected. As you said, it is merely "by default" and there are mechanisms like config.mak provided for people to override them.

> b) needs a special (GNU) grep argument (-a from memory). This I
> resolved by downloading and packaging GNU grep. However, I hope this
> has not introduced a new dependency.
Read the Makefile and find SANE_TEXT_GREP, perhaps?
Thanks for helping to spread Git to minority platforms.
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