From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johannes Schindelin Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] some shell portability fixes Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2007 14:47:29 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: References: <20071106201518.GA6361@ins.uni-bonn.de> <7v8x5bgl04.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <20071106210210.GA32159@glandium.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Ralf Wildenhues , Mike Hommey , Junio C Hamano , git@vger.kernel.org To: Mike Ralphson X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Nov 07 15:47:59 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 1IpmC6-0003wJ-CL for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Wed, 07 Nov 2007 15:47:50 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756154AbXKGOrf (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Nov 2007 09:47:35 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756796AbXKGOre (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Nov 2007 09:47:34 -0500 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:33256 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1755002AbXKGOrd (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Nov 2007 09:47:33 -0500 Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 07 Nov 2007 14:47:31 -0000 Received: from unknown (EHLO [138.251.11.74]) [138.251.11.74] by mail.gmx.net (mp054) with SMTP; 07 Nov 2007 15:47:31 +0100 X-Authenticated: #1490710 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX191S4ku/m11o1IsFfDrCf5zFYiwDwKjU6fvl10uWJ E5Ry3S+zO45RtY X-X-Sender: gene099@racer.site In-Reply-To: X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi, On Wed, 7 Nov 2007, Mike Ralphson wrote: > Junio C Hamano wrote on Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 09:46:35PM CET: > > [2/5] Gaah, AIX sed X-<. I am not opposed to this patch but > > would want to get Yays from people with non GNU sed. Is > > busybox sed good enough to grok our scripts these days? > > Please ask help and collect Acks at least from folks on > > Solaris, MacOS, FBSD, and OBSD. > > On Nov 6, 2007 11:25 PM, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > As Junio commented in the part you did not quote, there are better shells > > in Solaris. Use those. > > Equally GNU sed is available as a drop-in rpm for AIX. I wonder if it > would be worth adding > Makefile support for a PATH prefix for the git scripts, so they could > prepend (in this case) > something like /opt/freeware/bin or /usr/linux/bin ? > > In our AIX environment many GNU tools are installed but I can't > guarantee they come first > in the paths of the git users. > > I'm willing to work up a patch if there's any interest. Would that be a task for configure? Because I am not sure if the GNU tools are installed in the same place on all AIX boxen... Ciao, Dscho