From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: Chicken/egg problem building from a 'git clone' Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2009 21:36:50 -0800 Message-ID: <7vfxis86tp.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: gyles19@visi.com, Johannes Schindelin , git@vger.kernel.org To: Miles Bader X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Feb 06 06:38:34 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 1LVJQ9-0001x8-L0 for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Fri, 06 Feb 2009 06:38:34 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752086AbZBFFhG (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Feb 2009 00:37:06 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751491AbZBFFhG (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Feb 2009 00:37:06 -0500 Received: from a-sasl-fastnet.sasl.smtp.pobox.com ([207.106.133.19]:45480 "EHLO sasl.smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751349AbZBFFhE (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Feb 2009 00:37:04 -0500 Received: from localhost.localdomain (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-sasl-fastnet.sasl.smtp.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D3268978F3; Fri, 6 Feb 2009 00:36:57 -0500 (EST) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [68.225.240.211]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by a-sasl-fastnet.sasl.smtp.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 4EBED978F2; Fri, 6 Feb 2009 00:36:51 -0500 (EST) User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 2B8EB110-F410-11DD-8AFE-8B21C92D7133-77302942!a-sasl-fastnet.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Miles Bader writes: > Joi Ellis writes: >> Because there is no configure script provided, and because my autoconf >> is considered too old, I simply can't start the build process because >> I can't generate the missing configure script. > > Er, why don't you upgrade to a less ancient version of autoconf...? Please do not encourage the use of configure/autoconf unnecessarily. Our Makefile is designed to be usable *without* configure, exactly because configure/autoconf is often a maintenance (if not portability) nightmare. Use of configure is tolerated, not encouraged.