Re: bootstrap is broken

[Debarshi Ray]

> Yes, that's true.  But on the other hand, otherwise there would no
> explanation for bootstrap's attempt to checkout gnulib itself, no? :-)
>
> [...]
>
> bootstrap is meant for people who checked out your project from VCS, so
> that they do not need to know about gnulib at all.  You do not need to
> distribute it in the tarball indeed, but it still should be part of
> checked out sources.

I see. We were using explicit instructions in README-alpha to clone
Gnulib and use --gnulib-srcdir with bootstrap for too long for me to
forget this. :-)

Thanks,
Debarshi