Re: git on HP-UX

From: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Date: Jul 9, 2006, 22:23 UTC
Message-ID: <20060709222338.GV29115@pasky.or.cz>
In-Reply-To: <7vfyhe465i.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Dear diary, on Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 02:20:41AM CEST, I got a letter where Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> said that...

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> > I hope the Autoconf based configure is on its way to git, but I don't
> > see in in the "pu" branch yet.  I'm not very keen about reinventing
> > Autoconf and hacking a hand-made configure script.
> 
> OK, you half-convinced me.  The other half came from a recent
> series of patches to try using 'which' to detect executables,
> which is another common mistake handcrafted configure script
> makes, which autoconf people have solved for us long time ago.

Good! In fact, I have been a moderate autoconf fan and originally I have meant the hand-crafted ./configure script partially just as a tease and a nominal competitor for the autoconf one, so that we would for sure got _some_ autoconfiguration mechanism (which is what I care about).

I have to admit that I have grown somewhat attached to my script over time and I like it a lot more than the autoconf thing personally, but then again I had no idea that we actually want to support such systems like those with broken which...

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