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Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2010 09:40:40 +0000
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On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 08:39, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:

> But thanks to having ./configure optional step, we can build git also
> on platforms that doesn't have autoconf installed (though the same could
> be achieved by bundling ./configure script with release tarballs).

It already is built as part of the tarballs, at least for
http://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/git-1.7.3.1.tar.bz2