Re: GIT on MinGW problem

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: May 27, 2007, 10:46 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0705271143310.4648@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <4659259D.4000803@xs4all.nl>

Hi,

On Sun, 27 May 2007, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:

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> Jakub Narebski escreveu:
> 
> >> Instead, we have a Makefile that relies on an esoteric combination of 
> >> perl and shell scripting inside Makefiles.
> > 
> > The idea is to be able to get reasonable defaults (depending on system 
> > of
> 
> This saves the user on Linux or similar platform one ./configure call.

It works on Linux, Cygwin, MinGW, last time I checked MacOSX, IRIX, and I imagine Solaris, AIX and even other platforms, out of the box.

> For the rest it means editing makefiles. I'm not sure if that is an 
> improvement over the standard
> 
>   configure ; make ; make install

ATM you have to do autoconf before that. But that should work, really.

Ciao, Dscho

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