git on Solaris?

git on Solaris?

[Daniel Quinlan]

I'm investigating moving to git for our development, but I'm having  
difficulty getting a functional
version on Solaris.  I've looked through a lot of web pages, and seen  
a discussion of some of
the problems a few years ago, and I see that at least some of the  
changes proposed then (moving
from shell scripts to c) have been implemented.

However, it's by no means straightforward to compile git on solaris,  
no one seems to provide
a compiled version (eg, sunfreeware.com), and I haven't found any  
clear cookbook description of how to
compile, test and install git on the solaris (10) platform.

So my questions are:

* Is there a set of instructions for Solaris somewhere that I've missed?

* Is anyone actually using git on Solaris?

  Right now, it appears that gnu make and bash are both required to  
make git, and perhaps a bunch
  of other gnu utilities.

* Once made, do the git scripts require gnu utilities to work  
properly?  I'm a bit leery of putting the
     GNU utilities ahead of the solaris ones in my path (and everyone  
elses).

Thanks,
-- danq

Re: git on Solaris?

[Shawn O. Pearce]

Daniel Quinlan <danq@brtt.com> wrote:
> However, it's by no means straightforward to compile git on solaris,  
> no one seems to provide
> a compiled version (eg, sunfreeware.com), and I haven't found any  
> clear cookbook description of how to
> compile, test and install git on the solaris (10) platform.
> 
> So my questions are:
> 
> * Is there a set of instructions for Solaris somewhere that I've missed?
> 
> * Is anyone actually using git on Solaris?

Yes.  I run it on Solaris 9 and on Solaris 10, SPARC editions anyway.
I haven't personally tested it on the x86 Solaris version yet but
I don't expect any major differences from the SPARC edition.
 
>  Right now, it appears that gnu make and bash are both required to  
> make git, and perhaps a bunch
>  of other gnu utilities.

At least GNU make is required to compile Git.  This is available
pretty readily, and also builds fairly easy out of the box as
source code if (for some reason) you cannot install a version from
sunfreeware.com.  Some little voice in the back of my head thinks it
may also be available out of the box on Solaris 10 but I'm not sure.

> * Once made, do the git scripts require gnu utilities to work  
> properly?  I'm a bit leery of putting the
>     GNU utilities ahead of the solaris ones in my path (and everyone  
> elses).

Either the GNU utilties or /usr/xpg4/bin needs to be early in your
PATH so that Git can pick up tools from there.  I think I'm actually
building Git with a config.mak along the lines of:

	$ cat - >config.mak
	SHELL=/usr/xpg4/bin/sh
	SHELL_PATH=$(SHELL)
	^D

and then ensuring users have /usr/xpg4/bin very early in their PATH
environment variable.

It does manage to build with both gcc and the Solaris workshop
compilers, so about the only GNU program really necessary to get
git built is GNU make.  Of course I'm only talking about the really
core functionality; tools like git-p4, git-svn, gitk, git-gui will
require support beyond that (Python, Perl SVN bindings, Tcl/Tk...).

-- 
Shawn.

Re: git on Solaris?

[Glenn Rempe]

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