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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: git binary size...
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On Thu, 12 Jan 2006, Andreas Ericsson wrote:
> 
> git is already fairly portable without the autoconf hackery. It's easy enough
> to move some of the conditional stuff out of the Makefile without autoconf,
> but it would still require GNU Make, so there's no real point in doing so.

More importantly, autoconf is a worse hack than _any_ of the config hacks 
we do currently.

Repeat after me: "autoconf is crap".

		Linus