From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pb-smtp2.pobox.com (pb-smtp2.pobox.com [64.147.108.71]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 23A521CA69A for ; Wed, 18 Sep 2024 22:39:21 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=64.147.108.71 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1726699163; cv=none; b=ISlM3ATFMv5iK2DKzvj9o9b+nZYlvR4qHVwcH3rLBgpIq6lfK5Vr9DczOcPKySF6hLIavJSvqhvCW34K/2EHjYcpxIB73IDNP2jakdcw1LS7GqHLRaruXBqQ3AVp8SQue0BmqKhI2deegDhjWGh8XFy0xUfY4vPTQARmNL+QydI= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1726699163; c=relaxed/simple; bh=N5er7BQ5RGLO6YvbzKky5AnXqglnRqr6VR5+tJhfXU8=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:Date:Message-ID: MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=u/yCw8yFOccyaK8yZSi7cPGtL3o1QTGWEv0Fw7uNRzlolmZn05JVjU0prC07xNYW0FD2Bq6bz1LXPkCOLcKyPJf4fFw5l2xPzbmfk+SFIklGhYbvxy5oS7HitRjhs1pJA9LgiE+0NPgG9l4mOsm6jtkNsouk95NGwiBnYixcRps= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=pobox.com; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=pobox.com; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=pobox.com header.i=@pobox.com header.b=uXIMHt13; arc=none smtp.client-ip=64.147.108.71 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=pobox.com Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=pobox.com Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=pobox.com header.i=@pobox.com header.b="uXIMHt13" Received: from pb-smtp2.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by pb-smtp2.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 490E61ADA9; Wed, 18 Sep 2024 18:39:15 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from gitster@pobox.com) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:mime-version :content-type; s=sasl; bh=N5er7BQ5RGLO6YvbzKky5AnXqglnRqr6VR5+tJ hfXU8=; b=uXIMHt13Yhz2rWWOgWed2gNlo7WBShyB92vKo9OTAc+CSHtwZUBOW/ hyuRxFJLaOv95clE+4AEAuod62E+1uTbOiDrIRB2J7dHAiIBv8hIRqnRKjoR1p3P xt8V8KPOvJUTQxPtwhutQ2vpArQ40kGdvhpnpBUsn91WUKOBvi0DE= Received: from pb-smtp2.nyi.icgroup.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by pb-smtp2.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40EA51ADA8; Wed, 18 Sep 2024 18:39:15 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from gitster@pobox.com) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [34.125.108.217]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pb-smtp2.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id A3D081ADA7; Wed, 18 Sep 2024 18:39:14 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from gitster@pobox.com) From: Junio C Hamano To: Phillip Wood Cc: Patrick Steinhardt , Henrik Holst , "git@vger.kernel.org" , Johannes Schindelin Subject: Re: ./configure fails to link test program due to missing dependencies In-Reply-To: <29c5c9c0-aa61-415a-9cfa-d64a6b946a48@gmail.com> (Phillip Wood's message of "Wed, 18 Sep 2024 11:04:54 +0100") References: <29c5c9c0-aa61-415a-9cfa-d64a6b946a48@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2024 15:39:13 -0700 Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Pobox-Relay-ID: D4FF1CDA-760E-11EF-950A-9B0F950A682E-77302942!pb-smtp2.pobox.com Phillip Wood writes: > We seem to get fairly regular bug reports about the configure script, > presumably because most contributors are using the Makefile. It would > certainly be nice if we could get the CMake support into a state where > we could consider dropping the configure script. While I would agree that two is better than having to support three build procedures, I am not sure how improvement of CMake support needs to be a prerequisite for removal of autoconf.