From: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>
To: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Cc: 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 16:21:51 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTimAj_sCquCixmTOEV5ZaQVbbv-yvm=Yw82har1t@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4CB32D15.4080204@drmicha.warpmail.net>
On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 15:28, Michael J Gruber
<git@drmicha.warpmail.net> wrote:
> Jakub Narebski venit, vidit, dixit 11.10.2010 17:18:
>> Because ./configure script enhances Makefile rather than generate it,
>> using configure script can only improve situation (at the cost of extra
>> cycles spent detecting)... well, with exception of rare cases bugs in
>> configure.ac making it misdetect.
>
> 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. I haven't
seen/found any of the threads/issues in question. Would you mind
pointing some of them out, maybe the problems you cite are easy to
fix.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-11 16:21 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 [this message]
2010-10-11 16:26 ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-10-12 8:33 ` Michael J Gruber
2010-10-12 9:10 ` Tor Arntsen
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