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From: "Mike Ralphson" <mike.ralphson@gmail.com>
To: "Johannes Schindelin" <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Cc: "Ralf Wildenhues" <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>,
	"Mike Hommey" <mh@glandium.org>,
	"Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] some shell portability fixes
Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2007 15:30:16 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <e2b179460711070730w4ca95989y14872665ddc8bfca@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0711071446190.4362@racer.site>

On Nov 7, 2007 2:47 PM, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Would that be a task for configure?  Because I am not sure if the GNU
> tools are installed in the same place on all AIX boxen...

Well let's say the patch would arrive earlier if it was based on the
shipped Makefile rather than the unholy abomination that is
autoconf... If the GNU tools have been installed via the IBM AIX
Toolbox for Linux Applications[1] then they'll be installed in
/opt/freeware/bin and /usr/linux/bin will be a set of symlinks to
them.

That said, there may be 32/64bit differences and of course anyone
could have rolled their own sed, awk, diff, patch, grep, sort etc in
/usr/local/bin or anywhere else, and I'd guess this might be useful
for Solaris / HPUX users etc.

I was thinking along the lines of the existing $SHELL_PATH, i.e. a
build-time manually-set Makefile/environment variable. I'd also like
to be able to override gitexecdir in the same way without having my
builds marked dirty.

Cheers, Mike

[1] http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/p/os/aix/linux/download.html

  reply	other threads:[~2007-11-07 15:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-11-06 20:15 [PATCH 0/5] some shell portability fixes Ralf Wildenhues
2007-11-06 20:17 ` [PATCH 1/5] Avoid a few unportable, needlessly nested "...`..." Ralf Wildenhues
2007-11-06 20:17 ` [PATCH 2/5] Fix sed script to work with AIX sed Ralf Wildenhues
2007-11-06 20:18 ` [PATCH 3/5] Replace $((...)) with expr invocations Ralf Wildenhues
2007-11-06 20:26   ` Ralf Wildenhues
2007-11-06 21:06     ` Junio C Hamano
2007-11-06 23:17       ` [PATCH] Add Documentation/CodingStyle Johannes Schindelin
2007-11-07  0:04         ` Andreas Ericsson
2007-11-07  0:40         ` Junio C Hamano
2007-11-07  8:52           ` Andreas Ericsson
2007-11-07 14:59             ` [PATCH v2] " Johannes Schindelin
2007-11-07 21:43               ` Robin Rosenberg
2007-11-07 22:35                 ` [PATCH v3] Add Documentation/CodingGuidelines Johannes Schindelin
2007-11-07 23:14                   ` Junio C Hamano
2007-11-08  0:33                     ` [PATCH v4] " Johannes Schindelin
2007-11-08  0:38                       ` Junio C Hamano
2007-11-07 14:54           ` [PATCH] Add Documentation/CodingStyle Johannes Schindelin
2007-11-07  7:53         ` Wincent Colaiuta
2007-11-07  8:53           ` Andreas Ericsson
2007-11-07 19:40         ` Jon Loeliger
2007-11-07 20:13           ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-11-08 11:29         ` Mike Ralphson
2007-11-06 20:20 ` [PATCH 4/5] Fix sed string regex escaping in module_name Ralf Wildenhues
2007-11-06 20:20 ` [PATCH 5/5] Avoid "test -o" and "test -a" which are not POSIX, only XSI Ralf Wildenhues
2007-11-06 20:46 ` [PATCH 0/5] some shell portability fixes Junio C Hamano
2007-11-06 21:02   ` Mike Hommey
2007-11-06 23:25     ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-11-07 14:17       ` Mike Ralphson
2007-11-07 14:47         ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-11-07 15:30           ` Mike Ralphson [this message]
2007-11-07 15:37             ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-11-06 21:09   ` Ralf Wildenhues
2007-11-07 15:58   ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2007-11-07 16:05     ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2007-11-07 20:42       ` Junio C Hamano
2007-11-08  6:14         ` Ralf Wildenhues
2007-11-12 11:20         ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2007-11-10 22:30   ` Miles Bader

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