From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johan Herland Subject: [PATCH v2] INSTALL: Update section on external dependencies Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2007 10:27:48 +0200 Message-ID: <200710031027.48999.johan@herland.net> References: <3f4fd2640710011228w61ce34b5ve47ea529eed384fd@mail.gmail.com> <7v1wcdjbq6.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <20071003074007.GA15339@genesis.frugalware.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Cc: Miklos Vajna , Junio C Hamano , Reece Dunn To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Oct 03 10:28:23 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Iczae-0001Fv-II for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Wed, 03 Oct 2007 10:28:21 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752210AbXJCI2M (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Oct 2007 04:28:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752065AbXJCI2M (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Oct 2007 04:28:12 -0400 Received: from smtp.getmail.no ([84.208.20.33]:34722 "EHLO smtp.getmail.no" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752018AbXJCI2L (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Oct 2007 04:28:11 -0400 Received: from pmxchannel-daemon.no-osl-m323-srv-004-z2.isp.get.no by no-osl-m323-srv-004-z2.isp.get.no (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-7.05 (built Sep 5 2006)) id <0JPB0060FU6YC000@no-osl-m323-srv-004-z2.isp.get.no> for git@vger.kernel.org; Wed, 03 Oct 2007 10:28:10 +0200 (CEST) Received: from smtp.getmail.no ([10.5.16.1]) by no-osl-m323-srv-004-z2.isp.get.no (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-7.05 (built Sep 5 2006)) with ESMTP id <0JPB000GBU6D7NC0@no-osl-m323-srv-004-z2.isp.get.no> for git@vger.kernel.org; Wed, 03 Oct 2007 10:27:49 +0200 (CEST) Received: from alpha.herland ([84.215.102.95]) by no-osl-m323-srv-004-z1.isp.get.no (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-7.05 (built Sep 5 2006)) with ESMTP id <0JPB00J3VU6DKRB0@no-osl-m323-srv-004-z1.isp.get.no> for git@vger.kernel.org; Wed, 03 Oct 2007 10:27:49 +0200 (CEST) In-reply-to: <20071003074007.GA15339@genesis.frugalware.org> Content-disposition: inline User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Includes: - Mention dependency on "core" utilities, including coreutils, sed, cut, grep - Mention dependency on cpio - Fix up some whitespace and linebreaking issues Signed-off-by: Johan Herland --- On Wednesday 03 October 2007, Miklos Vajna wrote: > On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 05:14:25PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > Are there other commands we rely on that may not be universally > > installed? I myself consider "cut" to be in the category, but > > other than that I do not think of anything offhand. > > when using git in a chroot, i obviously had coreutils/sed/grep installed > and the only "extra" package i needed (besides the curl an openssl libs) > was cpio Ok, here's a more complete patch. ...Johan INSTALL | 18 +++++++++++------- 1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index 289b046..244470f 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -54,6 +54,8 @@ Issues of note: - Git is reasonably self-sufficient, but does depend on a few external programs and libraries: + - Common "core" utilities including coreutils, sed, cut, and grep. + - "zlib", the compression library. Git won't build without it. - "openssl". Unless you specify otherwise, you'll get the SHA1 @@ -63,22 +65,24 @@ Issues of note: that come with git (git includes the one from Mozilla, and has its own PowerPC and ARM optimized ones too - see the Makefile). - - "libcurl" and "curl" executable. git-http-fetch and - git-fetch use them. If you do not use http - transfer, you are probably OK if you do not have - them. + - "libcurl" and "curl" executable. git-http-fetch and git-fetch + use them. If you do not use http transfer, you are probably OK + if you do not have them. - expat library; git-http-push uses it for remote lock management over DAV. Similar to "curl" above, this is optional. - - "wish", the Tcl/Tk windowing shell is used in gitk to show the - history graphically, and in git-gui. + - "wish", the Tcl/Tk windowing shell is used in gitk to show the + history graphically, and in git-gui. - - "ssh" is used to push and pull over the net + - "ssh" is used to push and pull over the net. - "perl" and POSIX-compliant shells are needed to use most of the barebone Porcelainish scripts. + - "cpio" is used by git-merge for saving and restoring the index, + and by git-clone when doing a local (possibly hardlinked) clone. + - Some platform specific issues are dealt with Makefile rules, but depending on your specific installation, you may not have all the libraries/tools needed, or you may have -- 1.5.3.3.1144.gf10f2