From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.8 required=3.0 tests=DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID, DKIM_VALID_AU,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE, SPF_PASS autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 688F3C2BA83 for ; Fri, 14 Feb 2020 16:32:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1722E246A1 for ; Fri, 14 Feb 2020 16:32:04 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=pobox.com header.i=@pobox.com header.b="WDWxqqaZ" Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S2406747AbgBNQcD (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Feb 2020 11:32:03 -0500 Received: from pb-smtp20.pobox.com ([173.228.157.52]:59169 "EHLO pb-smtp20.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S2406854AbgBNQcA (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Feb 2020 11:32:00 -0500 Received: from pb-smtp20.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by pb-smtp20.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6BA77B5EE8; Fri, 14 Feb 2020 11:31:58 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from junio@pobox.com) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; s=sasl; bh=+Wz1xUVAPBtSNJNySsZ3VZBZuUU=; b=WDWxqq aZEGS7ph9TKLRJgdbvQ8HdHDPR4cjk0xAyoLNbOn92p0JKm9DncrC+mdFSBzA5MF nbUavakyY1p4KIlDK8efqwWfjLVfUT4jVrZnmLdh0XFFFY3czmAaAL1OlwODH4pC GYR3jF/3Tnqe3Nk+kumAuyuyLUq56rxCH8YAM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; q=dns; s=sasl; b=aCjZq/ozOYiShfBXLuOKkaHUEUjRH5l3 JPL8u7J6D8dEWcrk5dyLzXKlb/DlpbWCyJEc1nEISDnmsyn6RE4+Iux2INdu3fTU 1Xu/hoaXWkhyEg/UU3rdKI7lwasaYXBT37bKOFpddvNuqwT2XHklgp4tvpI6yCjB 2tO7+p+wD4c= Received: from pb-smtp20.sea.icgroup.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by pb-smtp20.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44DD4B5EE7; Fri, 14 Feb 2020 11:31:57 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from junio@pobox.com) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [34.76.80.147]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pb-smtp20.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 6B758B5EE6; Fri, 14 Feb 2020 11:31:54 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from junio@pobox.com) From: Junio C Hamano To: Jeff King Cc: Philippe Blain , git@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: How to force configure script to use curl ? References: <20200214061714.GA605125@coredump.intra.peff.net> Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2020 08:31:52 -0800 In-Reply-To: <20200214061714.GA605125@coredump.intra.peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Fri, 14 Feb 2020 01:17:14 -0500") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 82D5FE12-4F47-11EA-989A-B0405B776F7B-77302942!pb-smtp20.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Jeff King 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.