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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
To: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>
Cc: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>,
	Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] Makefile: Turn off the configure target by default
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2010 11:26:38 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101011162638.GH25842@burratino> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimAj_sCquCixmTOEV5ZaQVbbv-yvm=Yw82har1t@mail.gmail.com>

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 15:28, Michael J Gruber
> <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> wrote:

>> My observations on the list don't quite confirm that "configure" can
>> only improve the make situation, but I don't use it myself. So, I'll let
>> those give configure advice who use it.
>
> If it doesn't improve it that's a bug that we need to fix.

Probably Michael was referring to the FreeBSD 4 thread:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/158639

I suspect it has nothing to do with "configure", but given that
most of the active developers do not use autoconf, it tends to be
the first unknown one is tempted to eliminate.

  reply	other threads:[~2010-10-11 16:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-11  7:47 [RFC PATCH] Makefile: Turn off the configure target by default Michael J Gruber
2010-10-11  7:59 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-10-11  8:39   ` Jakub Narebski
2010-10-11  9:40     ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-10-11 12:10       ` Michael J Gruber
2010-10-11 12:37         ` [RFC PATCH] Makefile: point out "make" if "make configure" fails Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-10-11 15:06           ` Jakub Narebski
2010-10-11 20:46             ` Sverre Rabbelier
2010-10-11 15:18         ` [RFC PATCH] Makefile: Turn off the configure target by default Jakub Narebski
2010-10-11 15:28           ` Michael J Gruber
2010-10-11 16:21             ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-10-11 16:26               ` Jonathan Nieder [this message]
2010-10-12  8:33                 ` Michael J Gruber
2010-10-12  9:10                   ` Tor Arntsen

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