Re: git 1.6.1 on AIX 5.3

[Mike Ralphson <mike.ralphson@gmail.com>]

2009/1/26 Jeff King <peff@peff.net>:
> [cc-ing Mike Ralphson, our local AIX expert]

Bless you!

> On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 02:02:15PM -0600, Perry Smith wrote:
>
>> I tried building git 1.6.1 on AIX 5.3 as an "out of tree" build and it
>> does not seem to be set up to do out of tree builds.  If that is not
>> true, please let me know.
>>
>> The install process wants to call install with a -d option.  AIX has two
>> install programs but they are pretty old -- neither takes a -d option.
>>
>> Is there a GNU install program I can get?  I've not been able to locate
>> one.
>
> It's in GNU coreutils:
>
>  http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/
>
> I don't know what Mike uses to install on AIX; you can see his config
> setup here:
>
>  http://repo.or.cz/w/git/gitbuild.git?a=tree;f=mr/aix;hb=platform
>
> but I don't see any override of install.

I've got the AIX Toolbox for Linux applications[1] installed and ahead
of /bin and /usr/bin on my PATH. Beware that some of these don't
function as well as the stock AIX utilities and should normally be
removed. I've posted about this on what is ostensibly a blog but which
is really just a post-it note I'm less likely to lose[2].

Failing that, many programs which are primarily configured using
autoconf will ship with an install shell script which you can co-opt,
some apache stuff does too[3].

Any other questions, don't hesitate to ask.

Mike

[1] http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/power/software/aix/linux/index.html

[2] http://mermade.blogspot.com/2008/04/aix-toolbox.html

[3] http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/tcl/websh/trunk/src/unix/install-sh