From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 09:03:08 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Allow building GIT in a different directory from the source directory
Message-ID: <7vbqm9xz8z.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <eljo2u$pnq$2@sea.gmane.org>

Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@xs4all.nl> writes:

> GIT can now be built in a separate builddirectory. This is done as
> follows:
>
>   mkdir build
>   cd build
>   $my_git_dir/configure
>   make

Somehow making this depend on the use of configure feels wrong,
since we tried to keep that config.mak.gen built by configure
strictly optional.  In other words, I think the result of your
patch should be buildable with or without ./configure in a
separate directory if we are going to do this.

Care to explain why it is too cumbersome to handle without
./configure magic?