From: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
Date: Tue, 08 Sep 2009 14:38:12 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add more instructions about how to install git.
Message-ID: <4AA66C54.4060101@viscovery.net>
In-Reply-To: <a4c8a6d00909080724q1c792f6bs641ea9d000d08b5a@mail.gmail.com>

Thiago Farina schrieb:
> I tried to being more explicit about what the new users has to do. The
> first instruction that the text says is: "Normaly you can just do
> "make"".
> But the new user, cloning git won't have a configure file, so he can't
> just do "make".
> 
> And then, the text says: "so you can write instead". This brings me to
> one alternative (not what I really should do), when in fact it should
> be (I guess) the first instructions that new users need to follow.

Then guessed wrong. You really only have to say "make". The use of
autoconf and ./configure is purely optional and not necessary.

-- Hannes