Subject: Re: GIT on MinGW problem

From: Han-Wen Nienhuys <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 27 May 2007 04:02:22 -0300

Shawn O. Pearce escreveu:
> 
> On systems like Cygwin the fork+exec overheads are very high;
> running a "simple" configure script can take longer than it
> takes me to compile Git from scratch.  Editing config.mak is
> quite easy; so is passing your choices on the command line to
> `make install`.
> 
> Personally I find:
> 
> 	make NO_CURL=1 install
> 
> easier than:
> 
> 	./configure --without-curl && make install

NO_CURL is a nonstandard option. Every package does it
differently, so this requires users to delve through either
INSTALL or Makefile. 

A well written configure script is able to detect presence
of a linkable libcurl. 

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