GIT issue in AIX 6.1

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I recently installed GIT 1.8.1 on my AIX 6.1 machine and am facing a few issues with it.

Now if I login as root and issue git commands like git –version I get the response as shown :
Code:

git version 1.8.1

And I have tried creating repositories as root too and it works fine.

Now If I login as just a normal user and if I issue the version command : git –version I am getting the response as :

genuser:stud:/students/admin> git --version
exec(): 0509-036 Cannot load program git because of the following errors:
        0509-150   Dependent module /usr/lib/libiconv.a(libiconv.so.2) could not be loaded.
        0509-152   Member libiconv.so.2 is not found in archive

Now how come its working with root user and not working with normal user.

But If I issue man git command in normal user I'm getting the manual for git but the rest of the commands give the above error.

BTW the file libiconv.so.2 is not present in /usr/lib directory but it still works in root user but not in normal user.

How can I fix this.

Best Answer

Sounds like a LIBPATH issue, compare root's LIBPATH with the LIBPATH of the user you're trying to run git as.

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cat /usr/share/doc/git-1.7.4.4/contrib/git-shell-commands/README

Sample programs callable through git-shell. Place a directory named 'git-shell-commands' in the home directory of a user whose shell is git-shell. Then anyone logging in as that user will be able to run executables in the 'git-shell-commands' directory.

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cp /usr/share/doc/git-1.7.4.4/contrib/git-shell-commands /home/git -R
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[me@svn ~]$ su git
Password:
Run 'help' for help, or 'exit' to leave.  Available commands:
list
git> help
Run 'help' for help, or 'exit' to leave.  Available commands:
list
git> list
git> exit

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