Doing some testing of git checkout and noticed this…. Gandalf:~ pteeson$ git clone https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/apl.git Cloning into 'apl'... remote: Counting objects: 4746, done. ….. …. Gandalf:~ pteeson$ cd apl/trunk Gandalf:trunk pteeson$ ./configure checking for gcc... gcc ..... ... configure: creating ./src//buildtag.hh *** current directory is not a svn checkout: keeping old buildtag configure: creating ./src/makefile.h configure: creating ./src/configure_args.cc configure: saving configure options in ./configure_options Gandalf:trunk pteeson$