Re: GIT on MinGW problem

From: Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@xs4all.nl>
Date: May 27, 2007, 07:02 UTC
Message-ID: <46592CFE.40303@xs4all.nl>
In-Reply-To: <20070527063902.GB28023@spearce.org>

Shawn O. Pearce escreveu:

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> 
> 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

NO_CURL is a nonstandard option. Every package does it differently, so this requires users to delve through either INSTALL or Makefile.

A well written configure script is able to detect presence of a linkable libcurl.

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 Han-Wen Nienhuys - hanwen@xs4all.nl - http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen

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