From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tor Arntsen Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] Makefile: Turn off the configure target by default Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2010 11:10:18 +0200 Message-ID: References: <36e21bdafd75e95f1e13437f81067c71c7390408.1286783121.git.git@drmicha.warpmail.net> <4CB2FEB8.3050705@drmicha.warpmail.net> <201010111718.39996.jnareb@gmail.com> <4CB32D15.4080204@drmicha.warpmail.net> <20101011162638.GH25842@burratino> <4CB41D50.9020208@drmicha.warpmail.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: Jonathan Nieder , =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=C6var_Arnfj=F6r=F0_Bjarmason?= , Jakub Narebski , git@vger.kernel.org, Junio C Hamano To: Michael J Gruber X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Oct 12 11:10:30 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P5asM-000071-0m for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Tue, 12 Oct 2010 11:10:26 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756833Ab0JLJKU (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Oct 2010 05:10:20 -0400 Received: from mail-qy0-f174.google.com ([209.85.216.174]:44094 "EHLO mail-qy0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754914Ab0JLJKT (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Oct 2010 05:10:19 -0400 Received: by qyk5 with SMTP id 5so517491qyk.19 for ; Tue, 12 Oct 2010 02:10:18 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:sender:received :in-reply-to:references:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject :from:to:cc:content-type; bh=150z86jyfJ77hKUMHbz/AmCj2Bm66REg1GF+t/hjguc=; b=RNPyfgIu43k8bJS+UqeHgABfHaFnXJ+IAxLdw+2m9qE9EfHwhn05F65i/Ovn2sLwaU N/jmDzV7G+zEM/Sx7fzSwBzhfVnKm2omYcLWQnbELf1ite1cy84sxrFF2MxHChUfu/Yg l1r9WcFaxIzPs3JDT3ZFxy9JwdAgJtHe18PLg= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; b=gW0Ini9iKW3hZ+OxdUJgOMV+EqREklQ2gN+3MXbj4VHeQPkzSyYo51twCwcOWG8vbc iwx0pDYOYsZpYI+TGWCwxfXk0BqB2m+EDcJ9ailwU6wBZMulTnb3YDUWr0T1H1r4QLf8 NM8orsDj86coUCF23iZXtbdEUHV2hnXPzHRDg= Received: by 10.229.70.204 with SMTP id e12mr6052045qcj.113.1286874618215; Tue, 12 Oct 2010 02:10:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.229.66.157 with HTTP; Tue, 12 Oct 2010 02:10:18 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4CB41D50.9020208@drmicha.warpmail.net> X-Google-Sender-Auth: yVltO1onksBlc7cTS7-KxGzcwhY Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 10:33, Michael J Gruber wrote: [configure etc] > That thread was just the hair-trigger, so to say, there were many others > in the past. But it's very typical. We often have "Don't use configure - > it's second class"-type answers to build problems. I don't really > remember that many "I use configure, and it works here"-type answers. > > Given the vigorous defense showing up here against deprecating configure > (in the sense of declaring it second class), we can all be confident > that there will be many knowledgeable and helpful answers to build > problems for configure users, right? At the moment './configure; make' works better than just 'make' on Tru64 and AIX platforms. I have patches somewhere to improve just 'make' on those platforms but I haven't gotten around to post them yet (need some polishing, or at least re-check against current .git). One reason I figured it's no hurry is that ./configure actually takes care of things there for now. (The series posted by Gary from The Written Word, and mostly included by now I think, was mainly based on TWW using configure on all platforms btw. IIRC.) -Tor