Re: Testsuite of libidn 1.20 fails in gnulib

[Simon Josefsson]

Paul Eggert <address@hidden> writes:

> On 03/05/2011 05:36 AM, Bruno Haible wrote:
>> +When you invoke @code{autoreconf} after @code{gnulib-tool}, make sure to
>> +not invoke @code{autopoint} a second time
>
> build-aux/bootstrap runs gnulib-tool
> and then runs autopoint.

Just a note on why libidn doesn't use bootstrap: 

1) bootstrap does not (to my knowledge at least) support multiple gnulib
instances in the same project.  Libidn needs to use one separate gnulib
instance for the shared library and another one for the command line
tool, so it has two instances; one in lib/gl/ and another one in gl/.

2) bootstrap assumes that the person building the software has a local
gnulib copy, since it calls gnulib-tool, but I don't want to require
this for a few reasons.

/Simon