From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2012 19:46:59 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] build: avoid possible confusion between GNU/XPG4 make on Solaris
Message-ID: <7vfwdqdbv0.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <4F5118CF.6030402@gmail.com>

Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com> writes:

> configuration of the Git tree using the the autoconf-generated configure
> script (as I do), he wants configure to Do The Right Thing automatically
> in this regard too
> $PATH before /bin and /usr/bin, and setting up an appropriate default for
> SANE_TOOL_PATH in 'config.make.autogen' accordingly.
>
> What would you think of a patch in this direction?

Yeah, that was exactly what I was suggesting, but it may not have been
obvious.

As I consider autoconf merely a secondary mechanism to set config.mak,
whenever I say "that is solved by local tweak in config.mak", letting
./configure to do that tweak automatically is already covered by that
suggestion.