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

Miles Bader [off-list ref] writes:

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...).

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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.

Hmm, after reading my message again, I did sound rather misleading to
solicit a response like that from a gnu person, so let me try again.

Please do not encourge use of configure/autoconf *in this project*.

Use of configure *in this project* is not encouraged, it is merely
tolerated.

You are of course welcome to use configure and autoconf yourself for your
own projects, not here, but that goes without saying, I would think.