Re: Chicken/egg problem building from a 'git clone'

> On Fri, 6 Feb 2009, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> 
> > Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> > 
> > > Now, in this case, it was only one tweak and other responders have
> > > already pointed him in the right direction. So just making that tweak
> > > manually is probably the sane thing to do in this situation.
> > >
> > > But I wanted to point out that autoconf is not totally without value
> > > here.
> > 
> > I am not saying something that strong, either.  If autoconf generated
> > configure works _for you_ without hassle, great.  Keep using it.
> > 
> > The original message that started this thread was what to do when it does
> > NOT work for you, and my point was in general it is much nicer to point at
> > the knob to tweak from the make invocation command line (or in config.mak)
> > than having you spend time on upgrade autoconf, generate configure and run
> > it.
> 
> Actually, guys, if you go back and re-read my original message, I was
> pointing out that if you use a 'git clone' to get a build tree, THERE IS
> NO CONFIGURE SCRIPT in the tree.