Re: git 1.6.1 on AIX 5.3

[Perry Smith <pedzsan@gmail.com>]

On Jan 27, 2009, at 4:10 AM, Mike Ralphson wrote:

> 2009/1/26 Perry Smith <pedzsan@gmail.com>:
>> Thanks guys.  I picked up coreutils version 7.   I didn't
>> install them but just moved ginstall over to /usr/local/bin.
>>
>> A few other comments:  I had to add in the --without-tcltk flag.  I  
>> don't
>> have tcl installed but the config did not autodetect that it was  
>> not present.
>
> Yup, I usually build with NO_TCLTK=YesPlease in my config.mak, which
> you can see from the link Peff posted.
>
> When you said 'out of tree builds' I thought you meant using the AIX
> defaults in the Makefile without running ./configure, but it seems
> not, you meant is a clone of the tree buildable by itself or are only
> release snapshots buildable. Sorry.

Sorry... I thought "out of tree" was a universal term.

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  
<options>  After this completes,
you can do "make".

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.

>
>
> ./configure is (deliberately) a second-class citizen in the world of
> git, and may still get you a slightly suboptimal build compared with
> the defaults on platforms such as AIX... e.g. it doesn't test for
> performance-related switches such as INTERNAL_QSORT. If you have run
> configure, there's some file you need to blow away to get back to a
> non-autoconf world... is it config.mak.autogen?
>
> Despite that, your problem with --without-tcltk falling back to wish,
> but not falling back if that isn't installed does look like something
> we should fix, as per Peff's mail.
>
>> I can't tell if make test is happy or not.  The output looks like  
>> its happy
>> but the exit code is 2.
>>
>> Below is my "configure" script if anyone is interested.
>>
>> #!/usr/bin/env bash
>>
>> export CONFIG_SHELL=/usr/local/bin/bash
>> export LDFLAGS='-L/usr/local/lib -L/usr/local/ssl/lib'
>> export CFLAGS='-I/usr/local/include -I/usr/local/ssl/include'
>> export CC=gcc
>> echo CONFIG_SHELL set to ${CONFIG_SHELL}
>>
>> ${CONFIG_SHELL} ../../src/git-1.6.1/configure --without-tcltk
>>
>> #
>> # Note that to install you need to do:
>> # make INSTALL=ginstall install
>> # to use GNU's install program
>
> I build with SHELL_PATH={path}/bash as well. If I don't, the test
> suite exits after t0000-basic.sh with an unexpected error despite
> passing all the tests.
>
> gmake -C t/ all
> gmake[1]: Entering directory `/usr/local/src/gitbuild/t'
> rm -f -r test-results
> gmake aggregate-results-and-cleanup
> gmake[2]: Entering directory `/usr/local/src/gitbuild/t'
> *** t0000-basic.sh ***
> * passed all remaining 40 test(s)
> FATAL: Unexpected exit with code 0
> gmake[2]: *** [t0000-basic.sh] Error 1
> gmake[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/gitbuild/t'
> gmake[1]: *** [all] Error 2
> gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/gitbuild/t'
> gmake: *** [test] Error 2
>
> Is that what you're seeing? There's many more test scripts than that  
> 8-)
>
> With GIT_SKIP_TESTS='t3900 t3901 t5100.[12] t8005' (to omit some cases
> not handled by the version of iconv I have access to on all the AIX
> boxes I deploy to) the test suit runs to completion on AIX 5.3 for me.

Yea, part of my larger quest is to start a web site to provide AIX  
builds
of open source images as installp images.  I have not added iconv to the
mix yet because I fear bad interactions with GNU's and AIX's.  In  
theory, AIX's
commands should use AIX's library but it would not surprise me if  
there are
a few AIX applications that are not built properly.

>
>
> BTW Are you running AIX's make or GNU make?

yes -- GNU's make and gcc 4.3.1

I just tried setting SHELL_PATH (and exporting it) and the make test  
gets into
the second batch and then fails two tests.  I assume the  
GIT_SKIP_TESTS is
done:

make GIT_SKIP_TESTS=....test

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.)

(I'll go searching for it...)

Thank you,
Perry