From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff King Subject: Re: git 1.6.1 on AIX 5.3 Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 02:42:04 -0500 Message-ID: <20090128074204.GA31951@coredump.intra.peff.net> References: <20090126210027.GG27604@coredump.intra.peff.net> <9E98493A-B17A-4905-8BEA-3E0B837961D6@gmail.com> <20090128070114.GB19165@coredump.intra.peff.net> <7v4ozjx4ni.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Cc: Perry Smith , Mike Ralphson , git@vger.kernel.org To: Junio C Hamano X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Jan 28 08:43:35 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LS558-0000hT-3L for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Wed, 28 Jan 2009 08:43:30 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753976AbZA1HmJ (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Jan 2009 02:42:09 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753232AbZA1HmH (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Jan 2009 02:42:07 -0500 Received: from peff.net ([208.65.91.99]:47544 "EHLO peff.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752824AbZA1HmG (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Jan 2009 02:42:06 -0500 Received: (qmail 19689 invoked by uid 107); 28 Jan 2009 07:42:15 -0000 Received: from coredump.intra.peff.net (HELO coredump.intra.peff.net) (10.0.0.2) by peff.net (qpsmtpd/0.40) with (AES128-SHA encrypted) SMTP; Wed, 28 Jan 2009 02:42:15 -0500 Received: by coredump.intra.peff.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Wed, 28 Jan 2009 02:42:04 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <7v4ozjx4ni.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 11:37:21PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: > >> Just to be sure we are on the same page. My directory structure has a > >> top/src/git-1.6.1 and top/build/git.1.6.1. The src/git-1.6.1 is the > >> tar ball. The build/git-1.6.1 starts out empty. I cd into it and > >> then do: ../../src/git-1.6.1/configure After this > >> completes, you can do "make". > > > > I don't see how this would work without automake support, which git does > > not have. > > ... nor want to have ;-). Heh. Yes, in case there was any confusion: I don't want my statement in any way to be construed as a suggestion to support automake. I would not be opposed to it if it somehow enhanced some users' experience without bothering people who didn't want to touch it (like the way that autoconf support is implemented). But I don't see how that would be possible. -Peff