Re: [PATCH] bootstrap: Provide a hook for submodule _SRCDIR setup

[Arsen Arsenović]

Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> writes:

> Exactly, that's the point. Does he do it like this always, and what if he
> forgets it once? That is, if in one of his poke checkouts he runs
>
>    ./autopull.sh --jitter-srcdir="$HOME/gnu/jitter-experimental"
>    ./autogen.sh
>
> Will he get a mix of derived files from $HOME/gnu/jitter-experimental
> and ./jitter (with likely breakage)?
>
> Or is the directory name $HOME/gnu/jitter-experimental being remembered
> somewhere, making it unnecessary to repeat it?

He'd get whatever Jitter poke declares as a submodule, no remembering
anything.  The behavior for GNULIB_SRCDIR appears to be just skipping
the checkout instead.

Out of curiosity, I tried building after an

  ./autogen.sh --jitter-srcdir="$HOME/gnu/jitter-experimental"

call, and it'd appear to fail for other reasons currently:

  === configuring in jitter (/tmp/poke/jitter)
  configure: WARNING: no configuration information is in jitter
  configure: back from the recursive configuration in jitter
  checking for jitter-config... no
  configure: can't find jitter-config
  configure: error: could not find jitter-config in Jitter sub-package within
                  jitter

... but by changing the JITTER_JITTER_SUBPACKAGE invocation to check the
JITTER_SRCDIR variable, configure finishes, but make fails because
jitter is declared in SUBDIRS as just "jitter".

This use-case might take a bit more work to figure out.  I can do that
too given some time to think (so far, I'm leaning towards only having
JITTER_REFDIR that behaves as GNULIB_REFDIR does).

WDYT?

Thanks in advance.
-- 
Arsen Arsenović

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