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 14:49:52 +0900 Message-ID: References: <7vfxis86tp.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 06:51:38 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 1LVJcm-0004UR-4P for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Fri, 06 Feb 2009 06:51:36 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751183AbZBFFuJ (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Feb 2009 00:50:09 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751108AbZBFFuI (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Feb 2009 00:50:08 -0500 Received: from TYO201.gate.nec.co.jp ([202.32.8.193]:62873 "EHLO tyo201.gate.nec.co.jp" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750745AbZBFFuH (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Feb 2009 00:50:07 -0500 Received: from relay31.aps.necel.com ([10.29.19.54]) by tyo201.gate.nec.co.jp (8.13.8/8.13.4) with ESMTP id n165nrZ1019820; Fri, 6 Feb 2009 14:49:53 +0900 (JST) Received: from relay31.aps.necel.com ([10.29.19.16] [10.29.19.16]) by relay31.aps.necel.com with ESMTP; Fri, 6 Feb 2009 14:49:53 +0900 Received: from dhlpc061 ([10.114.112.240] [10.114.112.240]) by relay31.aps.necel.com with ESMTP; Fri, 6 Feb 2009 14:49:53 +0900 Received: by dhlpc061 (Postfix, from userid 31295) id 0366A52E27C; Fri, 6 Feb 2009 14:49:52 +0900 (JST) System-Type: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu Blat: Foop In-Reply-To: <7vfxis86tp.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (Junio C. Hamano's message of "Thu, 05 Feb 2009 21:36:50 -0800") Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Junio C Hamano writes: >>> Because there is no configure script provided, and because my autoconf >>> is considered too old, I simply can't start the build process because >>> I can't generate the missing configure script. >> >> Er, why don't you upgrade to a less ancient version of autoconf...? > > Please do not encourage the use of configure/autoconf unnecessarily. Huh? I'm not "encouraging the use of configure/autoconf unnecessarily", I'm encouraging the use of a non-obsolete version of autoconf, should he wish to use it (and he's the one that brought it up, so...). > Use of configure is tolerated, not encouraged. You're certainly welcome to discourage people from using it, but I see no reason to do so myself. -miles -- Joy, n. An emotion variously excited, but in its highest degree arising from the contemplation of grief in another.