Re: bootstrap oddity

[Jim Meyering]

Reuben Thomas wrote:

> I just got the following output from 
>
> $ ./bootstrap
> ./bootstrap: Bootstrapping from checked-out hello sources...
> ./bootstrap: consider installing git-merge-changelog from gnulib
> ./bootstrap: getting gnulib files...
> Submodule 'gnulib' () registered for path 'gnulib'
> ./bootstrap: getting translations into po/.reference for hello...
> receiving incremental file list
>
> sent 34 bytes  received 652 bytes  1372.00 bytes/sec
> total size is 295770  speedup is 431.15
> ./bootstrap: updated po//home/rrt/repo/hello/po/.reference.po...
> cp: cannot stat `po/.reference//home/rrt/repo/hello/po/.reference.po': No such
> file or directory
>
> (and then it continued, fine). But it seems to have constructed a bogus 
> filename
> on the way.

Hi Reuben,

I suggest you run "bash -x ./bootstrap >& log".
Then, if you look in the log, you can determine how that bogus-looking
name was formed.  Once you know that, I'll bet you can even suggest a patch.