Re: Chicken/egg problem building from a 'git clone'

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Feb 6, 2009, 08:12 UTC
Message-ID: <7vprhw6l1i.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <buor62c3yin.fsf@dhlpc061.dev.necel.com>

Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> writes:

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> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.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.
>
> Huh?  I'm not "encouraging the use of configure/autoconf unnecessarily",
> I'm encouraging the use of a non-obsolete version of autoconf, should he
> wish to use it (and he's the one that brought it up, so...).
>
>> Use of configure is tolerated, not encouraged.
>
> You're certainly welcome to discourage people from using it, but I see
> no reason to do so myself.

Hmm, after reading my message again, I did sound rather misleading to solicit a response like that from a gnu person, so let me try again.

Please do not encourge use of configure/autoconf *in this project*.

Use of configure *in this project* is not encouraged, it is merely tolerated.

You are of course welcome to use configure and autoconf yourself for your own projects, not here, but that goes without saying, I would think.