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From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: GIT on MinGW problem
Date: Sun, 27 May 2007 11:46:00 +0100 (BST)
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Hi,

On Sun, 27 May 2007, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:

> 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. 

It works on Linux, Cygwin, MinGW, last time I checked MacOSX, IRIX, and I 
imagine Solaris, AIX and even other platforms, out of the box.

> For the rest it means editing makefiles. I'm not sure if that is an 
> improvement over the standard
> 
>   configure ; make ; make install

ATM you have to do autoconf before that. But that should work, really.

Ciao,
Dscho