Re: git binary size...

Linus Torvalds wrote:

quoted

Repeat after me: "autoconf is crap".

.. which is not to say that some _other_ autoconf-like thing might not be 
good.

The problem I have with autoconf is that it adds absolutely horrendous 
#ifdef's etc all over the place, and the resulting makefile (and the 
config file itself) is just completely unreadable.

The reason autoconf sucks *ss is that it doesn't try to abstract out any 
of the differences between systems, it tries to basically "fix up" the 
differences.

A real abstraction library would be a lot more preferable than autoconf. 
It's kind of the way the git stuff works (ie using things like 
"gitstrcasestr()" and "gitfakemmap()"), but for many of the same reasons 
that autoconf never did a good job, git itself doesn't do a good job (it 
uses "#if" hackery to then do things like "#define mmap gitfakemmap").

But I think the git kind of hackish #ifdef thing is better than the 
_insitutionalized_ horrible autoconf hackery.

You can use autoconf in this way, though.  See my previous post on the 
matter.

	-hpa