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Mir S Mehdi
Mir S Mehdi

Reputation: 1530

Git installation on Solaris 8

How do I install Git on Solaris 8?

The instructions on the downloads page only talks about installation on Solaris 11. Can I get the steps for Solaris 8?

My OS details:

>uname -a
>SunOS 5.8 Generic_127721-03 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-880

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1377

Answers (2)

Joe
Joe

Reputation: 31095

There are repositories making binaries of open source software available for Solaris. For example, OpenCSW has CSWgit. However, they stopped supporting Solaris 8 back in 2010. After first shipping in 2000, as of 2013 Solaris 8 has reached End of Service Life, and has been effectively unsupported since 2009.

Upvotes: 3

Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen
Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen

Reputation: 75416

You will need to compile git and all its dependencies from source, and you need a C compiler for that. Solaris does not ship with one. In the old days, gcc could be downloaded in an old version which could be used to bootstrap a new one, and you can then use that to compile what you need. This may take you some time to get right if you are not familiar with the process.

Another approach that might work for you, is to use jgit instead (requires Java).

http://wiki.eclipse.org/JGit/User_Guide

The easiest is most likely to download jgit.sh from http://www.eclipse.org/jgit/download/ and try it out.

Upvotes: 3

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