From: Miles Bader Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2009 05:49:52 GMT Subject: Re: Chicken/egg problem building from a 'git clone' Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <7vfxis86tp.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> Junio C Hamano writes: >>> Because there is no configure script provided, and because my autoconf >>> is considered too old, I simply can't start the build process because >>> I can't generate the missing configure script. >> >> Er, why don't you upgrade to a less ancient version of autoconf...? > > Please do not encourage the use of configure/autoconf unnecessarily. Huh? I'm not "encouraging the use of configure/autoconf unnecessarily", I'm encouraging the use of a non-obsolete version of autoconf, should he wish to use it (and he's the one that brought it up, so...). > Use of configure is tolerated, not encouraged. You're certainly welcome to discourage people from using it, but I see no reason to do so myself. -miles -- Joy, n. An emotion variously excited, but in its highest degree arising from the contemplation of grief in another.