From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 18:13:46 GMT
Subject: Re: git binary size...
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0601121013030.3535@g5.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <43C65E70.7090702@op5.se>



On Thu, 12 Jan 2006, Andreas Ericsson wrote:
> 
> git is already fairly portable without the autoconf hackery. It's easy enough
> to move some of the conditional stuff out of the Makefile without autoconf,
> but it would still require GNU Make, so there's no real point in doing so.

More importantly, autoconf is a worse hack than _any_ of the config hacks 
we do currently.

Repeat after me: "autoconf is crap".

		Linus