Re: Interested in helping open source friends on HP-UX?

[Jeff King <peff@peff.net>]

On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 06:46:04PM +0100, Michael J Gruber wrote:

> >> H. Merijn Brand runs a few HP-UX boxes to help perl5 and other open
> >> source communities, wants help porting more recent Git on these
> >> boxes, running HP-UX 10.20, 11.00, and 11.23, and looking for a
> >> volunteer.  Please contact him directly if you are interested.
> > 
> > No-one. Disappointing :(
> 
> Well, how can we help if we don't even know the limitations of that
> platform?

I'm not sure, but I think the original call for help may have been "I
will give you shell access to these boxes if you want to play around".

> > t/t7001-mv.t
> > ------------
> > cp uses -P flag, which is unknown to HP's (non-GNU) version of cp
> > 
> > Changing the two occurrences from
> > 
> > 		cp -R -P -p ../.git/modules/sub .git &&
> > to
> > 		rsync -aHl ../.git/modules/sub/ .git/ &&
> > 
> > make the tests pass (on those systems that have a working rsync)
> 
> "rsync -r -l -o -p -t" would be the proper equivalent. -aH does more for
> my rsync. I don't know what HP-UX rsync understands, though.

It seems like we could use

  (cd src && tar cf - .) | (cd dst && tar xf -)

here as a more portable alternative. I don't think we can rely on rsync
being everywhere.

-Peff