From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff King Subject: Re: git 1.6.1 on AIX 5.3 Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 02:01:14 -0500 Message-ID: <20090128070114.GB19165@coredump.intra.peff.net> References: <20090126210027.GG27604@coredump.intra.peff.net> <9E98493A-B17A-4905-8BEA-3E0B837961D6@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Cc: Mike Ralphson , git@vger.kernel.org To: Perry Smith X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Jan 28 08:02:47 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LS4Rf-0000mR-0j for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Wed, 28 Jan 2009 08:02:43 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754616AbZA1HBS (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Jan 2009 02:01:18 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754514AbZA1HBR (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Jan 2009 02:01:17 -0500 Received: from peff.net ([208.65.91.99]:56060 "EHLO peff.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753389AbZA1HBQ (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Jan 2009 02:01:16 -0500 Received: (qmail 19302 invoked by uid 107); 28 Jan 2009 07:01:25 -0000 Received: from coredump.intra.peff.net (HELO coredump.intra.peff.net) (10.0.0.2) by peff.net (qpsmtpd/0.40) with (AES128-SHA encrypted) SMTP; Wed, 28 Jan 2009 02:01:25 -0500 Received: by coredump.intra.peff.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Wed, 28 Jan 2009 02:01:14 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 07:35:00PM -0600, Perry Smith wrote: > Just to be sure we are on the same page. My directory structure has a > top/src/git-1.6.1 and top/build/git.1.6.1. The src/git-1.6.1 is the > tar ball. The build/git-1.6.1 starts out empty. I cd into it and > then do: ../../src/git-1.6.1/configure After this > completes, you can do "make". I don't see how this would work without automake support, which git does not have. The configure script just generates a config.mak.autogen file, which is included by the Makefile. So you have no Makefile in your build directory. > About 90% of the open source configure / autoconf code out there can > do this with. The other 10% you can not. I like it because when > things die, its easier to grep around the source tree and I blow away > the build directory and start back over and I know that I'm starting > fresh. Another way of solving the same problem: cd untarred-sources git init git add . git commit -m 'pristine sources' Now you can use "git clean" to clean up cruft, not to mention the usual git stuff like tracking any changes you've made and submitting any patches upstream. > I get further. But now test 10 of t0001.sh fails because test_cmp can > not be found. > > Is that a GNU tool? (I didn't see it in git or coreutils.) It's a shell function defined in test-lib.sh (which is sourced by all of the test scripts). -Peff