From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 21:53:20 GMT
Subject: Re: Git clone problem, missing "configure"
Message-ID: <20100518215320.GA9065@progeny.tock>
In-Reply-To: <20100518200150.GB4448@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Hi,

Jeff King wrote:

> Right. We don't commit the configure script, as it is auto-generated.
> You need to either:
> 
>   1. Build from a release tarball which contains the "configure" script.
> 
>   2. Run "autoconf" to generate the configure script (obviously this
>      implies that you have GNU autoconf installed).
> 
>   3. Just run "make" without configure. You may need to tweak some
>      settings if you don't have some optional libraries installed. See the
>      top of Makefile for details.

To add to this excellent reply, I should mention the

  make configure

command.  This runs autoconf, also filling in the version number for
correct ./configure --help output. :)

See the README and INSTALL files for more details.

Hope that helps,
Jonathan