From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jon Loeliger Subject: Re: git binary size... Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 12:00:09 -0600 Message-ID: <1137780009.17872.229.camel@cashmere.sps.mot.com> References: <43C558FB.3030102@op5.se> <2cd57c900601120215pdb5da27l@mail.gmail.com> <43C65E70.7090702@op5.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Jan 20 19:00:18 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F00Yb-0004Ee-Ed for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Fri, 20 Jan 2006 19:00:18 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751128AbWATSAN (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Jan 2006 13:00:13 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751127AbWATSAN (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Jan 2006 13:00:13 -0500 Received: from az33egw02.freescale.net ([192.88.158.103]:51705 "EHLO az33egw02.freescale.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751126AbWATSAL (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Jan 2006 13:00:11 -0500 Received: from az33smr01.freescale.net (az33smr01.freescale.net [10.64.34.199]) by az33egw02.freescale.net (8.12.11/az33egw02) with ESMTP id k0KICESe002776 for ; Fri, 20 Jan 2006 11:12:14 -0700 (MST) Received: from [10.82.19.2] (cashmere.am.freescale.net [10.82.19.2]) by az33smr01.freescale.net (8.13.1/8.13.0) with ESMTP id k0KI8PXY017637 for ; Fri, 20 Jan 2006 12:08:26 -0600 (CST) To: Git List In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 (1.4.6-2.ydl.1) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 12:13, Linus Torvalds wrote: > More importantly, autoconf is a worse hack than _any_ of the config hacks > we do currently. > > Repeat after me: "autoconf is crap" Autoconf is also extraordinarily painful. If there is actually enough configuration stuff needed, would there be interest in a Kconfig-like mechanism? I could spare time that into existence, perhaps...? jdl