On Wed, 23 July 2008, Miklos Vajna wrote: > Being more constructive, what a user using HP-UX is supported to do? > > 1) Use the patched git from HP. > > 2) Have coreutils installed. (But then I think it would be good to list > this dependency in INSTALL.) It would be good idea, although "POSIX-compliant shells" implies coreutils somewhat; shell scripts usually do require some utilities, like sed, grep, cat, test etc. > 3) Patch git to use automake's install-sh. (Would such a patch be ever > accepted?) I think it would. It would allow us also to uncomment the AC_PROG_INSTALL line in configure.ac file to find 'install' automatically (autoconf requires having install.sh or install-sh fallback in the sources). The problem is coming up with minimal yet portable (at least as portable as git itself) fallback install.sh script. -- Jakub Narebski Poland -- 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
