From: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Sun, 27 May 2007 06:39:02 GMT
Subject: Re: GIT on MinGW problem
Message-ID: <20070527063902.GB28023@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <4659259D.4000803@xs4all.nl>

Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@xs4all.nl> wrote:
> Jakub Narebski escreveu:
> 
> >> Instead, we have a Makefile that relies on an esoteric combination of
> >> perl and shell scripting inside Makefiles.
> > 
> > The idea is to be able to get reasonable defaults (depending on system of
> 
> This saves the user on Linux or similar platform one ./configure call. For
> the rest it means editing makefiles. I'm not sure if that is an improvement
> over the standard 
> 
>   configure ; make ; make install

[side note: can you please not send both To the list and CC the
list on the same message?  Pick one, we're all getting two copies
of messages from you.]

On systems like Cygwin the fork+exec overheads are very high;
running a "simple" configure script can take longer than it
takes me to compile Git from scratch.  Editing config.mak is
quite easy; so is passing your choices on the command line to
`make install`.

Personally I find:

	make NO_CURL=1 install

easier than:

	./configure --without-curl && make install

-- 
Shawn.