From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: [RFH] NetBSD 6? Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2013 18:15:49 -0800 Message-ID: <7vd2xnypt6.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <7vd2xn18p5.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Greg Troxel X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Jan 03 03:16:13 2013 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 1TqaLt-0004js-8Z for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Thu, 03 Jan 2013 03:16:13 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752836Ab3ACCPz (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Jan 2013 21:15:55 -0500 Received: from b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com ([208.72.237.35]:35307 "EHLO smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752762Ab3ACCPx (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Jan 2013 21:15:53 -0500 Received: from smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52506AAE6; Wed, 2 Jan 2013 21:15:52 -0500 (EST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; s=sasl; bh=GC07e/UR+zfyql/L5MnvDut+Fcc=; b=YAacrq MqcVEbVmGUGQrJoVHPs8a2ekbw1t8Ny8bzepbpwxnGRw4LapXq1SrsCkdo+pI70w h8gtlwh15hcSlw+6vRplJ8RdfbE8SeMQc+P5mgQJnx7c9F6jPyhfDlpVSQ2Iubn5 uGipZ30AN8w35NVYIfS4GquDwE5iUufBFSJ8I= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; q=dns; s=sasl; b=BMxNzRhOfmkvd5bDgtEcbyW179Vqtxbi hhbPtc+hbCzvbQnkcS0V0F0iEi+/oBEM2bpqfEcLxeYrAWdKZvBFAHPOwGKpF7I2 RyCW1suQxUZPu8RP29RXnVvZtYWfeEa860HY/4bvb929b2o99xaH9T8YaQ4MJm1K pM4rEXvEvMA= Received: from b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34145AAE4; Wed, 2 Jan 2013 21:15:52 -0500 (EST) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [98.234.214.94]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 8F89BAAE1; Wed, 2 Jan 2013 21:15:51 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (Greg Troxel's message of "Wed, 02 Jan 2013 19:30:24 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 7EFD06F8-554B-11E2-9A22-F0CE2E706CDE-77302942!b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Greg Troxel writes: > I realize a README.foo file for N different systems could be clutter, > but having these checked in would provide the concise help that people > on any of those platforms need. Our Makefile documents knobs people on various platforms can tweak (PYTHON_PATH and OLD_ICONV are two examples of them), sets default values for them based on $(uname -S), then includes config.mak file the user can optionally create to override these platform defaults. This infrastructure is used across platforms, not just for NetBSD. The part shown in the patch was to update the platform default for NetBSD. The setting we have been shipping in our Makefile seemed to be different from what I needed on my NetBSD 6 install, and I was wondering if we have no real users of Git on the platorm (which would explain why we didn't get any complaints or patches to update this part). Or there are some optional packages all real NetBSD users install, but being a NetBSD newbie I didn't, that makes the values I showed in the patch inappropriate for them (e.g. Perhaps there is a mechanism other than pkgsrc that installs perl and python under /usr/bin? Perhaps an optional libi18n package that gives iconv(3) with new function signature?), in which case I definitely should not apply that patch to my tree, as it would only be an improvement for one person and a regression for existing users at the same time.