Re: [PATCH 0/5] some shell portability fixes

Junio C Hamano wrote on Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 09:46:35PM CET:

[2/5] Gaah, AIX sed X-<.  I am not opposed to this patch but
      would want to get Yays from people with non GNU sed.  Is
      busybox sed good enough to grok our scripts these days?
      Please ask help and collect Acks at least from folks on
      Solaris, MacOS, FBSD, and OBSD.

On Nov 6, 2007 11:25 PM, Johannes Schindelin [off-list ref] wrote:

As Junio commented in the part you did not quote, there are better shells
in Solaris.  Use those.

Equally GNU sed is available as a drop-in rpm for AIX. I wonder if it
would be worth adding
Makefile support for a PATH prefix for the git scripts, so they could
prepend (in this case)
something like /opt/freeware/bin or /usr/linux/bin ?

In our AIX environment many GNU tools are installed but I can't
guarantee they come first
in the paths of the git users.

I'm willing to work up a patch if there's any interest.

Mike