Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > I would appreciate if somebody with more familiarlity with the > platform can suggest a better alternative than applying the > following patch to our Makefile. Right now I have an equivalent of > this change in config.mak locally when building on the said > platform. I realized after sending my previous reply that you are probably trying to have a way to build and run tests on NetBSD-6 from a git checkout as part of development testing. One approach I've taken with other programs is to have a README.NetBSD file which is actually an executable /bin/sh script with comments, explaining the prereqs in terms of pkgsrc and invoking configure to get dependencies from pkgsrc (-I/usr/pkg/include plus -L/-R). So in the git case, this could set PYTHON_PATH in the environment. 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.
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