Re: master has switched from Automake to GNU Make

[Paul Eggert]

On 03/17/2017 12:51 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> How about something like this instead:
>
>    You can now run './autogen.sh git' or './configure'.

That would add complexity to a process that is already overly 
complicated. Plus, at that point there are other plausible things to do 
(i.e., other than './autogen.sh git' and './configure'); why list just 
those two possibilities?

Better would be to have plain './autogen.sh' default './autogen.sh all' 
instead of to './autogen.sh autoconf', so that the trailing message 
would simply say:

  You can now run './configure'.

That way, developers ordinarily wouldn't need to worry about running 
'./autogen.sh git'. The rare developers who prefer unusual Git settings 
could use './autogen.sh autoconf' instead of plain './autogen.sh', or 
they could run plain './autogen.sh' and then apply their preferred 
settings atop the standard settings.