From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Miles Bader Subject: Re: Chicken/egg problem building from a 'git clone' Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2009 18:31:41 +0900 Message-ID: References: <7vfxis86tp.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <7vprhw6l1i.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> Reply-To: Miles Bader Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: gyles19@visi.com, Johannes Schindelin , git@vger.kernel.org To: Junio C Hamano X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Feb 06 10:34:05 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 1LVN5z-0007Ia-9o for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Fri, 06 Feb 2009 10:33:59 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753939AbZBFJb7 (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Feb 2009 04:31:59 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752138AbZBFJb7 (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Feb 2009 04:31:59 -0500 Received: from TYO202.gate.nec.co.jp ([202.32.8.206]:45820 "EHLO tyo202.gate.nec.co.jp" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757865AbZBFJb5 (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Feb 2009 04:31:57 -0500 Received: from relay31.aps.necel.com ([10.29.19.54]) by tyo202.gate.nec.co.jp (8.13.8/8.13.4) with ESMTP id n169Vgep020450; Fri, 6 Feb 2009 18:31:42 +0900 (JST) Received: from relay11.aps.necel.com ([10.29.19.24] [10.29.19.24]) by relay31.aps.necel.com with ESMTP; Fri, 6 Feb 2009 18:31:42 +0900 Received: from dhlpc061 ([10.114.112.240] [10.114.112.240]) by relay11.aps.necel.com with ESMTP; Fri, 6 Feb 2009 18:31:41 +0900 Received: by dhlpc061 (Postfix, from userid 31295) id D4B7552E27C; Fri, 6 Feb 2009 18:31:41 +0900 (JST) System-Type: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu Blat: Foop In-Reply-To: <7vprhw6l1i.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (Junio C. Hamano's message of "Fri, 06 Feb 2009 00:12:41 -0800") Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Junio C Hamano writes: > Hmm, after reading my message again, I did sound rather misleading to > solicit a response like that from a gnu person, so let me try again. > > Please do not encourge use of configure/autoconf *in this project*. Er ... I was not doing so. I was saying that if one is going to use autoconf with git, one should use a non-ancient version. I don't think merely discussing autoconf+git without pejorative asides is "encouraging use". -Miles -- Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time. -- Steven Wright