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From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] make dist: include configure script in tarball
Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 10:34:04 +0100 (BST)
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Hi,

On Mon, 18 Jun 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
> 
> > On Tue, 19 Jun 2007, Jakub Narebski wrote:
> >
> >> Matthias Lederhofer wrote:
> >> 
> >> > +dist: git.spec git-archive configure
> >> 
> >> Ack. This way you don't need autoconf to ./configure install.
> >
> > ... but you force our good maintainer to have it installed...
> 
> Which is fine by me.

Good. That was the kind of Ack I was waiting for.

> I was wondering why this wish did not surface much earlier myself.

When I was trying to be lazy, and ran configure myself on some machine 
(sorry, don't remember which one, might well be a MinGW setup), it did not 
work. So I did not push for it.

> Not that I'd use "./configure" myself nor help debugging the 
> autoconf-generated shell scripts ;-).

I fully understand.

Ciao,
Dscho