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Re: bootstrap is broken


From: Debarshi Ray
Subject: Re: bootstrap is broken
Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2008 18:42:09 +0530

> I don't think this is how bootstrap is meant to be used.  You should
> distribute it together with your application, and do "./bootstrap
> --skip-po --gnulib-srcdir=/devel/gnulib/git/gnulib".

Just as the other files pulled in from Gnulib were not part of the
source tree, bootstrap was also being used directly from the cloned
Gnulib snapshot. The vanilla bootstrap that is provided by Gnulib and
a customised bootstrap.conf that _is_ part of the source tree was good
enough till this broke.

If one is supposed to distribute bootstrap together with the
application, two questions come to my mind:

+ Would it not result in unnecessary commits to the SCM to keep it
synchronized with Gnulib's version?

+ A user who wants to fiddle with the release tar balls can just use
'autoreconf --install' instead of 'bootstrap'. Since the required
Gnulib sources are already in the release tar ball, there is no need
to bootstrap it, isn't it?

Cheers,
Debarshi




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