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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: How to force configure script to use curl ?
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2020 08:31:52 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqh7ztp1tz.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200214061714.GA605125@coredump.intra.peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Fri, 14 Feb 2020 01:17:14 -0500")

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> But our use of autoconf is not very extensive, and in fact most
> developers do not use it at all. If you know you want curl, you're
> better off just overriding it explicitly with the Makefile knob:
>
>   make NO_CURL=
>
> or:
>
>   echo NO_CURL= >>config.mak
>   make
>
> Either of those will override the NO_CURL setting done by the configure
> script (you can see the full list of knobs set by configure in
> config.mak.autogen).

Heh, I didn't even know that things were expected to work if you
further tweak ./configure generated settings.  

You are correct to point out that our use of autoconf is merely is
an afterthought ;-), and the list of knobs near the top of Makefile
is more authoritative and fresh than what configure.in knows about.

Thanks.


  reply	other threads:[~2020-02-14 16:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-02-12 22:08 How to force configure script to use curl ? Philippe Blain
2020-02-13 10:07 ` Christian Couder
2020-02-14  6:17 ` Jeff King
2020-02-14 16:31   ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2020-02-14 16:43     ` Jeff King
2020-02-14 16:49   ` Philippe Blain

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