From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Perry Smith Subject: Re: git 1.6.1 on AIX 5.3 Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 09:03:23 -0600 Message-ID: <87325FCF-CD16-43CE-9CD0-CAC73904903A@gmail.com> References: <20090126210027.GG27604@coredump.intra.peff.net> <9E98493A-B17A-4905-8BEA-3E0B837961D6@gmail.com> <20090128070114.GB19165@coredump.intra.peff.net> <7v4ozjx4ni.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <20090128074204.GA31951@coredump.intra.peff.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v929.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Junio C Hamano , Mike Ralphson , git@vger.kernel.org To: Jeff King X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Jan 28 16:06:16 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 1LSByX-0004Lo-Md for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Wed, 28 Jan 2009 16:05:30 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751597AbZA1PD3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Jan 2009 10:03:29 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751584AbZA1PD2 (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Jan 2009 10:03:28 -0500 Received: from mail-qy0-f11.google.com ([209.85.221.11]:34589 "EHLO mail-qy0-f11.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751557AbZA1PD1 (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Jan 2009 10:03:27 -0500 Received: by mail-qy0-f11.google.com with SMTP id 4so7961762qyk.13 for ; Wed, 28 Jan 2009 07:03:27 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:cc:message-id:from:to :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:mime-version :subject:date:references:x-mailer; bh=WcP0rjf/W6YIt54/kmIs9TLfYNNudvzC1arncXL5SRM=; b=n7nJnJioAcrlOXzksV3XeofeJL5SGhVv0LLIvoASR6JoFhKntka4HWPzj/yDXNjFzs ruAfoT5bzEEUn97OiFLEoRzOVmI+2lze/TqgXMLWcVI5j2cRPtMVdNo6DFTTzZHIYPDa Ng3yNduEbg0SvAt796Z9oOXZLOI+r1RRj1ESs= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=cc:message-id:from:to:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:mime-version:subject:date:references :x-mailer; b=v9F6kVCzTk/M26d6V2jHqjkGO7zFRDSgAuhjuDDdjG4yEYDsbC0JwYw7fR5pKC6Mbd QJ+foqAMMWrZ1qPRbytnRBEdXdV28qgJlYsLVm3t9xbxCSvU/qiWK1nMplwzfyYS2FZk QaM8VpM0TSN8yqMx4crHoSiYl0qv4putbkZwo= Received: by 10.214.81.3 with SMTP id e3mr6830123qab.66.1233155007239; Wed, 28 Jan 2009 07:03:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from newtoy.easesoftware.com ([64.128.19.234]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 7sm3355221qwf.7.2009.01.28.07.03.25 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 28 Jan 2009 07:03:26 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20090128074204.GA31951@coredump.intra.peff.net> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.929.2) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Jan 28, 2009, at 1:42 AM, Jeff King wrote: > On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 11:37:21PM -0800, Junio C Hamano 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. >> >> ... nor want to have ;-). > > Heh. Yes, in case there was any confusion: I don't want my statement > in > any way to be construed as a suggestion to support automake. > > I would not be opposed to it if it somehow enhanced some users' > experience without bothering people who didn't want to touch it (like > the way that autoconf support is implemented). But I don't see how > that > would be possible. Thats fine. I didn't know if this was a "known" situation or not so I just mentioned it. As I mentioned, most open source code supports this style of build. I have no idea what it would take to get it to work.