Re: Chicken/egg problem building from a 'git clone'
Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> writes:
> However while toolchain needed to produce documentation (asciidoc +
> xmlto) isn't, I think, something very common, in my opinion autoconf
> is something that is present on systems containing other build tools
> required to build git from sources.
Plus:
* an old ./configure script (taken from a previous tarball release)
has good chance to work on a new Git. Since Makefile is designed to
be useable without scripting, Junnio takes great care not to break
existing setups.
* ./configure script is not mandatory to build Git from sources.
--
Matthieu
Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@imag.fr>