Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

> Akira Kitada <akitada@gmail.com> writes:
>
>>> One difference is that I never use ./configure, as that is somewhat
>>> foreign afterthought in our build infrastructure, though.
>>
>> Could you run './configure && gmake' and see if it builds on your environment?
>
> No, thanks.  I do not think I have autoconf set up on that box.  Perhaps
> sometime later, but not tonight.

Well, it turns out that I did have autoconf already.