From: Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 30 May 2012 11:38:19 GMT
Subject: Re: 1.7.10.3 configure does not generate Makefiles
Message-ID: <CABPQNSZaNeu7n36_v_Xe26WHqtXNQWWXiPVutvVM7hk+q5S_-Q@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20120529233238.GC3072@gmail.com>

On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 1:32 AM,  <jupiter.hce@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've just downloaded 1.7.10.3 source tarball and following the
> instruction from INSTALL, I ran the autoconf to generate the
> configure, then to run configure --prefix=/usr/local/git/1.7.10.3.
> There were no errors but there was no Makefiles generated either. How
> can I run the configure to generate Makefiles?
>
> .......
> configure: creating ./config.status
> config.status: creating config.mak.autogen
>

This is as expected. Git doesn't use Automake, only Autoconf. So all
it generates is a config.mak.autogen, which gets included by the
Makefile which is already present on the top-level.