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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Subject: Re: git 1.6.1 on AIX 5.3
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 16:00:27 -0500
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Cc: Mike Ralphson <mike.ralphson@gmail.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
To: Perry Smith <pedzsan@gmail.com>
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[cc-ing Mike Ralphson, our local AIX expert]

On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 02:02:15PM -0600, Perry Smith wrote:

> I tried building git 1.6.1 on AIX 5.3 as an "out of tree" build and it  
> does not seem to be set up to do out of tree builds.  If that is not  
> true, please let me know.
>
> The install process wants to call install with a -d option.  AIX has two 
> install programs but they are pretty old -- neither takes a -d option.
>
> Is there a GNU install program I can get?  I've not been able to locate 
> one.

It's in GNU coreutils:

  http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/

I don't know what Mike uses to install on AIX; you can see his config
setup here:

  http://repo.or.cz/w/git/gitbuild.git?a=tree;f=mr/aix;hb=platform

but I don't see any override of install.

> Last -- just so I know for future reference, is this list a 'text only  
> email' list?

If you mean "no html", then yes, it is absolutely text only.

-Peff