Solaris install error: didn't get git-init link was [Fwd: Re: The Reposithon! Take 2]

[Sam Vilain <sam@vilain.net>]

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Refer attached ... 1.5.3.6 install, didn't get git-init link to git.
Ring any bells?

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From: Andrew Dougherty <doughera@lafayette.edu>
To: "H.Merijn Brand" <h.m.brand@xs4all.nl>
Cc: perl5-porters@perl.org
Subject: Re: The Reposithon!  Take 2
Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 09:32:39 -0500 (EST)
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0712170910420.22480@fractal.phys.lafayette.edu>

On Mon, 17 Dec 2007, H.Merijn Brand wrote:

> I don't say porting git to HP-UX was/is easy, but at least I got it building
> in less than four hours without having to depend on other projects. I gave
> up on SVN after three days and not having any runnable part of svn at all.

My experiences on Solaris are about equally painful, but reversed.  I ended
up hand-editing svn's configure scripts to get them to work at all.  It
took about a day of on-and-off effort, but it does now seem to work.

Git took about half a day to get to build and install, but alas it
doesn't seem to work:

    $ git-clone git://git.utsl.gen.nz/p4-metadata
    /home/doughera/git/bin/git-clone: git-init: command not found
    Usage: /home/doughera/git/bin/git-clone [--template=<template_directory>] [--reference <reference-repo>] [--bare] [-l [-s]] [-q] [-u <upload-pack>] [--origin <name>] [--depth <n>] [-n] <repo> [<dir>]
    $ git --version
    git version 1.5.3.6

Indeed, I have no 'git-init' command anywhere to be found.  I have no
idea if this is normal.  It's probably something simple, but I probably
won't have time to investigate until January sometime.

Sigh.  

On the other hand, I certainly agree that the discussion has been
constructive and positive.  Sam's done a wonderful job working on
converting the perforce repository and sharing his work with the broader
community.

-- 
    Andy Dougherty		doughera@lafayette.edu