Re: Git 1.3.2 on Solaris

Hi Linus,

2006/5/17, Linus Torvalds [off-list ref]:

On Tue, 16 May 2006, Jason Riedy wrote:

quoted

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

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