Re: Chicken/egg problem building from a 'git clone'

Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] writes:

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Because there is no configure script provided, and because my autoconf
is considered too old, I simply can't start the build process because
I can't generate the missing configure script.

Er, why don't you upgrade to a less ancient version of autoconf...?

Please do not encourage the use of configure/autoconf unnecessarily.

Huh?  I'm not "encouraging the use of configure/autoconf unnecessarily",
I'm encouraging the use of a non-obsolete version of autoconf, should he
wish to use it (and he's the one that brought it up, so...).

Use of configure is tolerated, not encouraged.

You're certainly welcome to discourage people from using it, but I see
no reason to do so myself.

-miles

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