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From: Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@xs4all.nl>
Subject: Re: GIT on MinGW problem
Date: Sun, 27 May 2007 03:30:53 -0300
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Jakub Narebski escreveu:

>> Instead, we have a Makefile that relies on an esoteric combination of
>> perl and shell scripting inside Makefiles.
> 
> The idea is to be able to get reasonable defaults (depending on system of

This saves the user on Linux or similar platform one ./configure call. For
the rest it means editing makefiles. I'm not sure if that is an improvement
over the standard 

  configure ; make ; make install

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