Dnia środa 6. grudnia 2006 17:56, Han-Wen Nienhuys napisał: > Jakub Narebski escreveu: > >> I'm still not sure if this has place in git. Is it really common to >> support building outside source directory? If git didn't support this, >> so what? > > lots of serious tools support it, as it this comes automatically > when using automake. Eg. emacs, gcc, make, pango, lilypond, etc etc. > > It's a quite standard feature ; you should be asking why git > shouldn't support it. Because git is not autotool'ed project. And people protested vehemently against adding yet another dependency. So from the whole autotools suite only autoconf is used, and only to generate config.mak.autogen Makefile configuration, which otherwise would be needed to be generated by hand. BTW git tries to guess configuration based on uname -a result. There was also for a little while hand-generated configure script, but it got abandoned when it appeared that it is hard to be portable (and autoconf did the work; perhaps too hard but did, not using features which weren't common but now are in standard, but did), and the fact that it was possible to have _optional_ autoconf support. Add to that the fact that people said that ./configure on Cygwin is slow (can be slow), so they prefer _not_ to run this. Besides, the fact that some tools suport some feature is not the reason to add it. You have to look at how often is this feature _used_. For example you don't need it (you need only DESTDIR support) for creating RPMS from sources. -- Jakub Narebski Poland - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html