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From: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag•fr>
To: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail•com>
Cc: Jeff King <peff@peff•net>, John Tapsell <johnflux@gmail•com>,
	Git Mailing List <git@vger•kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Chicken/egg problem building from a 'git clone'
Date: Fri, 06 Mar 2009 11:51:37 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <vpqwsb2ly9y.fsf@bauges.imag.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3eixbszkt.fsf@localhost.localdomain> (Jakub Narebski's message of "Fri\, 06 Mar 2009 02\:39\:46 -0800 \(PST\)")

Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail•com> writes:

> However while toolchain needed to produce documentation (asciidoc +
> xmlto) isn't, I think, something very common, in my opinion autoconf
> is something that is present on systems containing other build tools
> required to build git from sources.

Plus:

* an old ./configure script (taken from a previous tarball release)
  has good chance to work on a new Git. Since Makefile is designed to
  be useable without scripting, Junnio takes great care not to break
  existing setups.

* ./configure script is not mandatory to build Git from sources.

-- 
Matthieu

  reply	other threads:[~2009-03-06 11:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-02-06  4:09 Chicken/egg problem building from a 'git clone' Joi Ellis
2009-02-06  4:32 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-02-06  4:45   ` Joi Ellis
2009-02-06  5:12     ` Miles Bader
2009-02-06  5:36       ` Junio C Hamano
2009-02-06  5:49         ` Miles Bader
2009-02-06  8:12           ` Junio C Hamano
2009-02-06  9:31             ` Miles Bader
2009-02-06 10:28               ` Junio C Hamano
2009-02-06 10:35                 ` Miles Bader
2009-02-06 19:25                 ` Jeff King
2009-02-06 22:12                   ` Junio C Hamano
2009-03-01 15:56                     ` Joi Ellis
2009-03-01 16:34                       ` Björn Steinbrink
2009-03-05  9:06                       ` Andreas Ericsson
2009-03-05 11:37                         ` John Tapsell
2009-03-05 12:06                           ` Jeff King
2009-03-05 12:38                             ` Matthieu Moy
2009-03-05 12:45                               ` Jeff King
2009-03-06 10:39                                 ` Jakub Narebski
2009-03-06 10:51                                   ` Matthieu Moy [this message]
2009-03-06 11:04                                   ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-03-06 11:27                                     ` John Tapsell
2009-03-06 12:02                                       ` asciidoc, was " Johannes Schindelin
2009-03-06 12:28                                         ` John Tapsell
2009-03-06 13:15                                           ` Jakub Narebski
2009-03-06 13:39                                             ` John Tapsell
2009-02-06  5:14     ` Björn Steinbrink
2009-02-06 11:34     ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-02-06  4:44 ` Björn Steinbrink
2009-02-06 19:06 ` Daniel Barkalow

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