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From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Chicken/egg problem building from a 'git clone'
Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2009 19:35:50 +0900
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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
>> 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.
>
> That is nice but the statement is only half-truth, and should be followed
> by ", but why bother?  You do not even need to use configure to build
> git, and insn is all here...".

You've got to be kidding...

-Miles

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