[BUG] Installing git-gui (2.27.0)

[BUG] Installing git-gui (2.27.0)

[Randall S. Becker]

Hi,

This is what I found when trying to install the whole git package on the
NonStop TNS/E platform:

 DEST /usr/local/share/git-gui/lib
    INSTALL 644 tclIndex
install: cannot stat 'lib/tclIndex': No such file or directory
Makefile:293: recipe for target 'install' failed

I’m not sure why we are only hitting this now at 2.27.0. We don’t use
git-gui anyway on this platform as it has no GUI interface. It looks like
the install script runs auto_mkindex that actually does nothing in our case,
so lib/tclIndex is not built.

This does block the install from completing successfully. To bypass, I added
the following:

index f10caedaa7..943febaf75 100644
--- a/git-gui/Makefile
+++ b/git-gui/Makefile
@@ -256,6 +256,7 @@ lib/tclIndex: $(ALL_LIBFILES) GIT-GUI-VARS
          $(foreach p,$(PRELOAD_FILES),source $p\;) \
          auto_mkindex lib $(patsubst lib/%,%,$(sort $(ALL_LIBFILES))) \
        | $(TCL_PATH) $(QUIET_2DEVNULL); then : ok; \
+        echo >>$@ ; \
        else \
         echo >&2 "    * $(TCL_PATH) failed; using unoptimized loading"; \
         rm -f $@ ; \

Regards,
Randall

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Re: [BUG] Installing git-gui (2.27.0)

[Pratyush Yadav]

Hi Randall,

On 08/06/20 10:02AM, Randall S. Becker wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> This is what I found when trying to install the whole git package on the
> NonStop TNS/E platform:
> 
>  DEST /usr/local/share/git-gui/lib
>     INSTALL 644 tclIndex
> install: cannot stat 'lib/tclIndex': No such file or directory
> Makefile:293: recipe for target 'install' failed
> 
> I’m not sure why we are only hitting this now at 2.27.0. We don’t use
> git-gui anyway on this platform as it has no GUI interface. It looks like
> the install script runs auto_mkindex that actually does nothing in our case,
> so lib/tclIndex is not built.
> 
> This does block the install from completing successfully. To bypass, I added
> the following:
> 
> index f10caedaa7..943febaf75 100644
> --- a/git-gui/Makefile
> +++ b/git-gui/Makefile
> @@ -256,6 +256,7 @@ lib/tclIndex: $(ALL_LIBFILES) GIT-GUI-VARS
>           $(foreach p,$(PRELOAD_FILES),source $p\;) \
>           auto_mkindex lib $(patsubst lib/%,%,$(sort $(ALL_LIBFILES))) \
>         | $(TCL_PATH) $(QUIET_2DEVNULL); then : ok; \
> +        echo >>$@ ; \
>         else \
>          echo >&2 "    * $(TCL_PATH) failed; using unoptimized loading"; \
>          rm -f $@ ; \
> 

IIUC, this is a NonStop-specific problem. This fix shouldn't go in the 
git-gui 'master', right?

-- 
Regards,
Pratyush Yadav

RE: [BUG] Installing git-gui (2.27.0)

[Randall S. Becker]

On, June 23, 2020 8:47 AM, Pratyush Yadav:
> On 08/06/20 10:02AM, Randall S. Becker wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > This is what I found when trying to install the whole git package on
> > the NonStop TNS/E platform:
> >
> >  DEST /usr/local/share/git-gui/lib
> >     INSTALL 644 tclIndex
> > install: cannot stat 'lib/tclIndex': No such file or directory
> > Makefile:293: recipe for target 'install' failed
> >
> > I’m not sure why we are only hitting this now at 2.27.0. We don’t use
> > git-gui anyway on this platform as it has no GUI interface. It looks
> > like the install script runs auto_mkindex that actually does nothing
> > in our case, so lib/tclIndex is not built.
> >
> > This does block the install from completing successfully. To bypass, I
> > added the following:
> >
> > index f10caedaa7..943febaf75 100644
> > --- a/git-gui/Makefile
> > +++ b/git-gui/Makefile
> > @@ -256,6 +256,7 @@ lib/tclIndex: $(ALL_LIBFILES) GIT-GUI-VARS
> >           $(foreach p,$(PRELOAD_FILES),source $p\;) \
> >           auto_mkindex lib $(patsubst lib/%,%,$(sort $(ALL_LIBFILES))) \
> >         | $(TCL_PATH) $(QUIET_2DEVNULL); then : ok; \
> > +        echo >>$@ ; \
> >         else \
> >          echo >&2 "    * $(TCL_PATH) failed; using unoptimized loading";
\
> >          rm -f $@ ; \
> >
> 
> IIUC, this is a NonStop-specific problem. This fix shouldn't go in the
git-gui
> 'master', right?

The component is still part of the git build, so unless it can be severed by
configuration, it should go into 'master'. The Makefile should still
generate a tclIndex, which the foreach is not guaranteed to do, apparently.

Randall