From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2009 05:36:50 GMT
Subject: Re: Chicken/egg problem building from a 'git clone'
Message-ID: <7vfxis86tp.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <buobptg6tek.fsf@dhlpc061.dev.necel.com>

Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> writes:

> Joi Ellis <gyles19@visi.com> writes:
>> Because there is no configure script provided, and because my autoconf
>> is considered too old, I simply can't start the build process because
>> I can't generate the missing configure script.
>
> Er, why don't you upgrade to a less ancient version of autoconf...?

Please do not encourage the use of configure/autoconf unnecessarily.

Our Makefile is designed to be usable *without* configure, exactly because
configure/autoconf is often a maintenance (if not portability) nightmare.

Use of configure is tolerated, not encouraged.