Re: git 1.6.1 on AIX 5.3

From: Perry Smith <pedzsan@gmail.com>
Date: Jan 28, 2009, 15:03 UTC
Message-ID: <87325FCF-CD16-43CE-9CD0-CAC73904903A@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20090128074204.GA31951@coredump.intra.peff.net>

On Jan 28, 2009, at 1:42 AM, Jeff King wrote:

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> On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 11:37:21PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>>>> Just to be sure we are on the same page.  My directory structure  
>>>> has a
>>>> top/src/git-1.6.1 and top/build/git.1.6.1.  The src/git-1.6.1 is  
>>>> the
>>>> tar ball.  The  build/git-1.6.1 starts out empty.  I cd into it and
>>>> then do: ../../src/git-1.6.1/configure <options>  After this
>>>> completes, you can do "make".
>>>
>>> I don't see how this would work without automake support, which  
>>> git does
>>> not have.
>>
>> ... nor want to have ;-).
>
> Heh. Yes, in case there was any confusion: I don't want my statement  
> in
> any way to be construed as a suggestion to support automake.
>
> I would not be opposed to it if it somehow enhanced some users'
> experience without bothering people who didn't want to touch it (like
> the way that autoconf support is implemented). But I don't see how  
> that
> would be possible.

Thats fine. I didn't know if this was a "known" situation or not so I just mentioned it.

As I mentioned, most open source code supports this style of build. I have no idea what it would take to get it to work.