Re: make install fails because GNU tar needed

[dev <dev@cor0.com>]

On August 28, 2014 at 10:50 AM Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 10:16:48AM -0400, dev wrote:
>
> > # gmake CFLAGS="$CFLAGS" LDFLAGS="$LD_OPTIONS" NEEDS_LIBICONV=Yes \
> > > SHELL_PATH=/usr/local/bin/bash \
> > > SANE_TOOL_PATH=/usr/local/bin \
> > > USE_LIBPCRE=1 LIBPCREDIR=/usr/local CURLDIR=/usr/local \
> > > EXPATDIR=/usr/local NEEDS_LIBINTL_BEFORE_LIBICONV=1 \
> > > NEEDS_SOCKET=1 NEEDS_RESOLV=1 USE_NSEC=1 \
>
> As an aside, you may be able to drop some of these defines. For
> example,
> we set NEEDS_SOCKET automatically on Solaris. See the "SunOS" section
> of
> config.mak.uname for the complete set of defaults.

I figured as much but for the moment I am flailing along towards a nice
working build first and then pray to the gods of complication for some
kindness and simplification.  :-)

Thus far the build process seems to work fine. I have no idea if I
can use SSH protocol as I would need to set up a dummy to test it.
Everything else seems to work. I think. :-\

> > Is there some magic somewhere to use ordinary POSIX tar ?
>
> gmake TAR=tar ?

ha .. yeah I guess.

Actually I found a file called GIT-BUILD-OPTIONS :

# cat GIT-BUILD-OPTIONS
SHELL_PATH='/usr/local/bin/bash'
PERL_PATH='/usr/local/bin/perl'
DIFF='diff'
PYTHON_PATH='/usr/bin/python'
TAR='tar'
NO_CURL=''
USE_LIBPCRE='1'
NO_PERL=''
NO_PYTHON='1'
NO_UNIX_SOCKETS=''
NO_GETTEXT=''
GETTEXT_POISON=''


Funny looking options for NO_foo where I would think that a null
string indicates that in fact I have foo?  Because I do have curl
and perl and most likely UNIX_SOCKETS.  Regardless, I simply edited
that file and three others to stop the search for gtar.

> The default of gtar for Solaris dates back to 2005. There may have
> been
> a reason then that is no longer valid now, or there may be something
> besides "make install" which uses a more advanced feature.

Yes, I seem to recall that long long ago there were problems with old
tar on Solaris 2.5.1 back in the 90's and then it carried forwards up
to Solaris 7 or 8.  The ultimate POSIX tar as well as tar that can
archive
or extract anything from anything is Joerg Schilling's star.

   http://sourceforge.net/projects/s-tar/

I use that nearly everywhere that I must ensure all metadata and data
gets taken care of correctly and cross platform.  However, hell will
freeze over before we ever see it included in a distro or UNIX anywhere
so for now tar will suffice.

> > /bin/sh: gtar: /bin/shnot found
> > : gtar: not found
> > gmake[1]: *** [install] Error 1
> > gmake: *** [install] Error 2
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > Also, what is shnot ?
>
> Two messages stepping on each other's toes?

Yeah .. I saw that after I sent the email.

dev