Compiling git on Solaris. Recipe included.

Hey folks,

I'm compiling git on Solaris 10 and 11 SPARC and X86 using the Sun Studio 12.x compilers.

git doesn't compile out of the box, there are (see below) lots of tweaks to have it use open source stuff in /usr/local/* and also to pass some of the configure tests for inet_ntop and -lintl.

This recipe below fixes everything and I'm on to using git now.

Thanks, Mark.

  cd /var/tmp
  rm -rf /git git-1.7.10
   untgz /usr/local/src/utils/git-1.7.10.tar.gz
  cd git-1.7.10
   mkdir /git

  /bin/perl -pe "s#^ifndef V#ifdef XYZZY#" -i Makefile
   /bin/perl -pe "s#^ifndef V#ifdef XYZZY#" -i git-gui/Makefile
  /bin/perl -pe "s#^ifndef V#ifdef XYZZY#" -i git_remote_helpers/Makefile
   /bin/perl -pe "s#^ifndef V#ifdef XYZZY#" -i gitk-git/Makefile
  /bin/perl -pe "s#^ifndef V#ifdef XYZZY#" -i gitweb/Makefile
   /bin/perl -pe "s#^ifndef V#ifdef XYZZY#" -i perl/Makefile
  /bin/perl -pe "s#^ifndef V#ifdef XYZZY#" -i templates/Makefile

  /bin/perl -pe "s#-lintl#-L/usr/local/lib -lintl#" -i Makefile
   /bin/perl -pe "s#-Wall##" -i Makefile
  /bin/perl -pe "s#^TCL_PATH = tclsh#TCL_PATH = /usr/local/bin/tclsh8.5#"
-i Makefile
   /bin/perl -pe "s#tclsh#/usr/local/bin/tclsh8.5#" -i git-gui/Makefile
  /bin/perl -pe "s#tclsh#/usr/local/bin/tclsh8.5#" -i gitk-git/Makefile
   /bin/perl -pe
"s#LIBC_CONTAINS_LIBINTL=YesPlease#LIBC_CONTAINS_LIBINTL=#" -i configure
  /bin/perl -pe "s#NO_INET_NTOP=YesPlease#NEEDS_RESOLV=YesPlease#" -i
configure
   setenv TCL_PATH /usr/local/bin/tclsh8.5
  ./configure --prefix=/git \
               --with-iconv=/usr/local \
              --with-openssl=/usr/local \
               --with-curl=/usr/local \
              --with-expat=/usr/local \
               --with-zlib=/usr/local \
              --with-tcltk=/usr/local/bin/tclsh8.5 \
                --with-python=/usr/local/bin/python
  gmake
   gmake INSTALL=/usr/local/bin/ginstall install
  unsetenv TCL_PATH

Mark Ashley <mark@ibiblio.org> writes:

Thanks for an interest in Git, but I am somewhat dissapointed by your message. As our Makefiles strive to offer necessary knobs to tweak from the command line for platform-specific glitches, from "Recipe included" on the subject, I think people would have expected to see something like:

    gmake   VAR1=VAL1 \
            VAR2=VAL2 \
            VAR3=VAL3 ...

or perhaps:

    cat >config.mak <<-EOF
    VAR1=VAL1
    VAR2=VAL2
    ...
    EOF

and not a sequence of commands to rewrite files in-tree.

Other people have built git on Solaris but probably not many people have done so recently. The platform specific knobs in our Makefiles may have to be extended to accomodate newer version of Solaris. So the "Recipe" may not be just the series of make variables, but needs a patch or two to the Makefile to enhance the tweaks.

See 614dd90 (Makefile: SunOS 5.6 portability fix, 2010-05-14) for an example of such a patch.

Thanks.

Excerpts from Mark Ashley's message of Tue May 08 23:11:30 -0400 2012:

Hi Mark,

I'm building for solaris 9+ at OpenCSW with the studio compilers.

I use the following patch for -lintl: https://gar.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/gar/csw/mgar/pkg/git/trunk/files/0007-on-solaris-we-need-to-use-lintl-to-allow-the-new-i18.patch

(For some reason, I didn't get around to generalizing it for submission yet.)

The build recipe I'm using (for our build system GAR) is here: https://gar.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/gar/csw/mgar/pkg/git/trunk/Makefile

(There is some baggage in the recipe that needs cleanup, such as old patches that are merged or no longer required, but it builds a nice clean package that passes the test suite.)

Hope that helps.

Thanks -Ben -- Ben Walton Systems Programmer - CHASS University of Toronto C:416.407.5610 | W:416.978.4302