Re: [PATCH 0/5] some shell portability fixes

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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 <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> 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

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