Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] build-fix for Solaris (#970)

[Michele La Monaca]

Hi Mario,

in Solaris ...,8,9,10 it's there; in Solaris 11 it's an optional package. Still
the best option as the default BSD-compliant install program in my opinion...
much better than ginstall. As you suggest, this default can be overridden.

Btw, as far I can tell, /usr/ucb is quite common on other System-V platforms as
location for BSD compatible commands.

As regarding OpenSolaris, I can't remeber if /usr/ucb is installed by default
or provided as an optional package. I dont't think ginstall is there by default
either... anyway it looks like a dead OS.

A few open source programs come with a customized install.sh (using only mkdir,
cp, chmod commands) which is run if no BDS-compatible install can be detected.
Maybe this should be the long term solution.

My 2 cents.

Regards,
mikele

On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 10:34 AM, Mario Domenech Goulart
<address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi Michele,
>
> On Wed, 23 Jan 2013 22:08:45 +0100 Michele La Monaca <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> Patch provided for the install issue on Solaris.
>>
>> ---
>>  Makefile.solaris |    2 +-
>>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/Makefile.solaris b/Makefile.solaris
>> index 99f9826..f6914c7 100644
>> --- a/Makefile.solaris
>> +++ b/Makefile.solaris
>> @@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ SRCDIR = ./
>>  ARCH ?= $(shell sh $(SRCDIR)/config-arch.sh)
>>  # default to gcc - use "make ... C_COMPILER=cc ..." to use SunPro CC
>>  export C_COMPILER ?= gcc
>> -export INSTALL_PROGRAM ?= ginstall
>> +export INSTALL_PROGRAM ?= /usr/ucb/install
>
> I'm totally clueless about Solaris, but won't that break other
> versions (e.g., OpenSolaris)?
>
> http://www.scalingbits.com/node/186 has some points.
>
> You can also configure INSTALL_PROGRAM by specifying it on the make
> call.  Example:
>
>   $ make PLATFORM=solaris INSTALL_PROGRAM=/usr/ucb/install ...
>
> Best wishes.
> Mario
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