Re: Feature request / patch: dependency-only prerequisites

[Paul Smith]

On Fri, 2020-01-03 at 20:42 +0100, Christof Warlich wrote:
> By the way, I stumbled into a minor issue entirely unrelated to the
> feature above that you may want to fix: The gnulib git repository
> referenced in bootstrap seems to have changed its location, so you may
> want it to change it accordingly:

Hm.  Does the original not work?  The version I have is the same one that
is currently being distributed with the gnulib library; see:

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gnulib.git/tree/build-aux/bootstrap

sv.gnu.org is a valid alias for savannah.gnu.org so unless the problem is
with the git protocol vs. https, it should work fine.

I would prefer to see this change made in gnulib's upstream copy if it is a
correct change, rather than in my copy.

> Furthermore, as running ./bootstrap adds the gnulib directory, it may be
> appropriate to add it to .gitignore:

OK.  I always use a separate gnulib repo and set $GNULIB_SRCDIR, because
checking out gnulib takes a long time.  So I didn't notice this issue.

> And finally, running ./bootstrap also changes lib/.gitignore and
> m4/.gitignore, so you may want to consider to commit these changed
> versions:

I know about this but I don't want to do it.  My setting for .gitignore is
correct already.  I really wish I could find a way to tell gnulib modules
to stop messing around with my .gitignore files but until then I just don't
pay any attention to those changes.