On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 11:06:15PM -0400, Steve Scaffidi wrote:
> On Mar 6, 2009, at 3:13 PM, Tom Metro <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Can you get git for a Nokia N810? :-)
> I'll have to double-check, but I believe it will build on most systems
> with a working gcc toolchain... and not necessarily a recent one! (ask
> uri about his experience on an *old* Solaris box)
> I already know it works on ARM, SPARC, and Itanium based platforms, so
> there's a good possibility you can compile a working build from source
> on your Nokia (A TI chip, right?)
The architecture doesn't really matter that much for the vast majority
of userland stuff, of course. What matters is whether the OS is
supported (and on the N810 it is, cos it runs Linux) and whether you've
got the right libraries and header files.
But even then, git's build system "degrades gracefully" if some libs are
missing. eg, when I built it on Ye Olde Debianne Systeme, it bitched
and whined because some http-ish library wasn't available, and the man
pages didn't build because Linus used something retarded to write them,
but the software works just fine.
Apart from the stupid documentation format, I'm quite impressed by the
way git builds and how easy it is to run a repository.
--
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