From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: dev Subject: Re: make install fails because GNU tar needed Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2014 11:08:56 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <502287515.26012.1409238536022.JavaMail.vpopmail@webmail2.networksolutionsemail.com> References: <267282067.24350.1409235408562.JavaMail.vpopmail@webmail2.networksolutionsemail.com> <20140828145056.GA26855@peff.net> Reply-To: dev Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Jonathan Nieder To: Jeff King X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Aug 28 17:09:22 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XN1KC-0000nv-FU for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Thu, 28 Aug 2014 17:09:20 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750961AbaH1PJQ (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Aug 2014 11:09:16 -0400 Received: from atl4mhob19.myregisteredsite.com ([209.17.115.112]:46413 "EHLO atl4mhob19.myregisteredsite.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750794AbaH1PJP (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Aug 2014 11:09:15 -0400 Received: from atl4oxapp02pod2.mgt.hosting.qts.netsol.com ([10.30.77.38]) by atl4mhob19.myregisteredsite.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id s7SF8u5M021442; Thu, 28 Aug 2014 11:08:56 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20140828145056.GA26855@peff.net> X-Priority: 3 Importance: Medium X-Mailer: Open-Xchange Mailer v6.20.7-Rev18 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On August 28, 2014 at 10:50 AM Jeff King 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