From: Jonathan Nieder Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2010 16:26:38 GMT Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] Makefile: Turn off the configure target by default Message-ID: <20101011162638.GH25842@burratino> In-Reply-To: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: > On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 15:28, Michael J Gruber > wrote: >> My observations on the list don't quite confirm that "configure" can >> only improve the make situation, but I don't use it myself. So, I'll let >> those give configure advice who use it. > > If it doesn't improve it that's a bug that we need to fix. Probably Michael was referring to the FreeBSD 4 thread: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/158639 I suspect it has nothing to do with "configure", but given that most of the active developers do not use autoconf, it tends to be the first unknown one is tempted to eliminate.