[Zlib-devel] configure script

[Vincent Torri]

On Sat, 17 Sep 2011, Mark Adler wrote:

> On Sep 17, 2011, at 12:48 PM, Török Edwin wrote:
>> Something like this might work:
>> git update-index --assume-unchanged file1 [file...]
>
> Yep, that works.  Thanks.
>
> I would recommend that others do a "git update-index --assume-unchanged Makefile zconf.h" locally.
>
> I want to leave those files in the distribution so that Makefile tells the user to use configure first, and so that zconf.h is there for those building on non-Unixish systems.  I want to leave them in the repository so that when you grab an archive from the repository, you get exactly the same thing as you get in the distribution.

Btw,  why don't you want to use the configure script when using MSYS/MinGW 
?

Vincent Torri