Re: git on Solaris?

[Glenn Rempe <glenn@rempe.us>]

Daniel Quinlan <danq <at> brtt.com> writes:

> 
> I'm investigating moving to git for our development, but I'm having  
> difficulty getting a functional
> version on Solaris. 


I am using Git on OpenSolaris (a Joyent accelerator).  I found the process
of compiling Git on Solaris impossible to figure out myself as well.  
The solution I found lay in installing Git from a package that 
Joyent provides which has been working well for me deploying 
Rails apps to Joyent using Capistrano and Git.

I did the following:

On my accelerator I downloaded this entire package dir to 
my local home dir:

http://pkgsrc.joyent.com/2007Q3/All/

I copied the whole thing recursively with this command:

wget -q -r -nc http://pkgsrc.joyent.com/2007Q3/All/

Then:

sudo /opt/local/sbin/pkg_add \
~/pkgsrc.joyent.com/2007Q3/All/scmgit-1.5.3.2.tgz

You might be able to deduce what was done to get it working by 
digging into the scmgit package file.

Here is a wiki page with instructions for compiling Git on solaris, but I could 
not get them to work reliably (I could compile but tests would not pass).

http://discuss.joyent.com/viewtopic.php?pid=145354

I too would love to find a way to do a simple compile and install 
similar to what I do on OS X.

Glenn