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
next prev parent 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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