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Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> writes:

> This concludes easiest part of autodetecting compile configuration
> using autoconf generated configure script. Patches needs revision by
> somebody better versed in autoconf than me.

Thanks.  Will take a look.

> About needing autoconf to build git:
>
> 1. Currently using autoconf is totally optional, so one can compile
> git as one used to earlier.

This should stay this way, at least for now and probably even
after merging this into "master" someday (we need to get this in
"next" first).

> 2. configure script generated by autoconf can be treated exactly the
> same like html and man documentation generated by asciidoc: use
> separate 'configure' branch to store current version of configure
> script, and add autogeneration of configure script to the same hook
> like generating html and man documentation.

Actually my gut feeling on this is eventually (read: when the
autoconfiguration is stable enough) we would want to do this the
other way around --- keep only the generated configure script
for public consumption, and interested parties can check out
autoconf branch to hack on configure.ac and friends when needed.

But we haven't reached that point yet, so we will see.