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Re: [PATCH] make dist: include configure script in tarball

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Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date
Jun 19, 2007, 09:34 UTC
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Hi,
On Mon, 18 Jun 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
> 
> > On Tue, 19 Jun 2007, Jakub Narebski wrote:
> >
> >> Matthias Lederhofer wrote:
> >> 
> >> > +dist: git.spec git-archive configure
> >> 
> >> Ack. This way you don't need autoconf to ./configure install.
> >
> > ... but you force our good maintainer to have it installed...
> 
> Which is fine by me.
Good. That was the kind of Ack I was waiting for.
> I was wondering why this wish did not surface much earlier myself.

When I was trying to be lazy, and ran configure myself on some machine (sorry, don't remember which one, might well be a MinGW setup), it did not work. So I did not push for it.

> Not that I'd use "./configure" myself nor help debugging the 
> autoconf-generated shell scripts ;-).
I fully understand.

Ciao, Dscho

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Message 5 of 5 in “make dist: include configure script in tarball”
  1. make dist: include configure script in tarballMatthias Lederhofer, Jun 18, 2007
  2. Jakub NarebskiJun 19, 2007
  3. Johannes SchindelinJun 19, 2007
  4. Junio C HamanoJun 19, 2007
  5. Johannes SchindelinJun 19, 2007

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