I've built git on several BSD (FreeBSD and DragonFlyBSD) systems, and while it builds fine on both platforms, the test suite *fails* on both. I tracked most of the problems down to dependencies on bash and GNU tar. I'm not sure yet what the specific differences are between BSD's /bin/sh and bash (the two are separate in the BSD world), but it's obvious what the problem is with tar: the git-archive test parses datestamps printed out by tar, and the two tar's print datestamps differently. If I set SHELL_PATH=/usr/local/bin/bash and TAR=gtar (the name of GNU tar on BSD systems) I am able to get thru all the tests on FreeBSD (this is with a checkout of the v1.5.2.3 tag). On DragonFly there is another problem that I have not yet tracked down. git-mailinfo fails on 0004 - it fails to extract *anything* from the message. Anyone running Linux or Mac OSX won't see these problems, because on both platforms /bin/sh == bash and tar == GNU tar. Cheers, - David -- If I have not seen farther, it is because I have stood in the footsteps of giants. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
