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Re: bootstrap: Obey another environment variable GNULIB_REFDIR
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Simon Josefsson |
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Re: bootstrap: Obey another environment variable GNULIB_REFDIR |
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Sat, 30 Jul 2022 22:27:23 +0200 |
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Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> writes:
> The handling of the GNULIB_SRCDIR environment variable in 'bootstrap'
> is hard to understand, despite the long documentation in `bootstrap --help`.
Thank you! I have encountered this a couple of times, and always had to
read the source code to learn how it worked, and then work around the
poor design. I'm sure I'll have to adapt scripts due to this, but the
earlier mess was not worth documenting.
/Simon
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