From: Jakub Narebski Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 22:22:37 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] Makefile: set USE_PIC on Linux x86_64 for linking with Git.pm Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <1151527945.1619.17.camel@dv> Pavel Roskin wrote: > On Wed, 2006-06-28 at 21:21 +0200, Marco Roeland wrote: >> I certainly do not know cases outside Linux where this might break on >> x86-64. I just tried to limit it to the case I could test. But perhaps >> someone with an x86-64 BSD or Solaris might try it? >> >> To paraphrase Dave Jones: I type 'make', it fails. Some 'git log' later >> I realise I have to manually define 'USE_PIC'. Hey, why doesn't it work >> automagically? > > Automagically? You should search the archives for "Autoconf". When I > proposed using it, the hell broke loose. Now let me indulge in > Schadenfreude :-) If I remember correctly everybody agreed that autoconf is least evil of the whole autotools package. pasky suggested to write ./configure script by hand on #git... I'm trying to do inobtrusive _optional_ autoconf support in the patch series beginning with Message-ID: <200606290301.51657.jnareb@gmail.com> http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/22832 Please wait for the patch moving ./autoconf output away from config.mak (as some people here requested), and do contribute! My autoconf/m4 experience is nonexistent (I'm learning it as I go). See comments in the third [PATCH/RFC] in series. BTW. patches are against master. -- Jakub Narebski Warsaw, Poland ShadeHawk on #git