gEDA-dev: Considering git

[Stephen Williams]

Oh gosh, I'm sorry:-(  Barriers like this shave down the already
sparse list of contributers. If I had known that the Solaris port
of git was such a pain, I would have handled this differently.

It would be a big help if you can contribute your results of git
hoop jumping to the iverilog.wikia.com wiki. There is a stub "git"
page where this sort of thing can go:

  http://iverilog.wikia.com/wiki/Git

I'd be willing to host precompiled binaries for Solaris (or ANY
target, for that matter) on ftp.icarus.com if that helps.

Alan M. Feldstein wrote:
> 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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