Stephen Williams wrote:
> I am fiddling with git, and I'm considering moving Icarus Verilog
> over to git. I've experienced git in the course of working with
> other projects, so I have a decent idea what the advantages and
> disadvantages will be for me, so I'd like to open up the discussion
> to anybody else who might care.
>
> *Does* anybody even care?
CVS was a breeze to install on Solaris and the developers of CVS did not
seem to prefer one operating system over another. Git, on the other
hand, is targeted to run on Linux, but can supposedly be used on other
Unix-like operating systems.
Staying in sync with the Icarus Verilog Git repository so that I can
continue to contribute requires that I deal with Git. Let me share with
you some of the issues encountered while attempting Git installation on
Solaris 10.
* Makefile doesn't adhere to POSIX 'make' syntax, so I use GNU 'make'.
* I don't have "libcurl" and "curl" executable, so I define the
NO_CURL variable to GNU 'make'.
* In the case of SunOS, Makefile sets the INSTALL variable to
"ginstall". That command isn't found, so I set the variable
instead to "install".
* The commands associated with the "install:" target include some
like $(INSTALL) -d -m755 '$(DESTDIR_SQ)$(bindir_SQ)'. However, the
"install" command requires whitespace between the -m option and
its mode argument.
* Now I'm attacking a problem where the "find" command cannot follow
symbolic links. In other words, I still haven't finished
installing Git.
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