Re: on bootstrapping the repository

[Simon Josefsson]

Marco Maggi <address@hidden> writes:

> Ciao,
>
>   I  have created  a  temporary clone  of  the original  GIT
> repository[1],  and I  am pushing  doc fixes  to the  branch
> "marcomaggi-doc-typos"[2].  I use  an i686-pc-linux-gnu with
> GNU Automake version 1.13 and GNU Autoconf version 2.69.

Hi Marco and welcome to the list!

>   Unfortunately  I cannot  bootstrap the  repository: I  get
> errors and warning when running autoreconf:
>
>     $ autoreconf --verbose --warnings=all --install
>     autoreconf: Entering directory `.'
>     autoreconf: running: autopoint
>     autopoint: File lib/build-aux/config.rpath has been locally modified.
>     autopoint: *** Some files have been locally modified. Not overwriting 
> them because --force has not been specified. For your convenience, you find 
> the local modifications in the file 
> '/tmp/marco/arLe16gm/gtkSCcyU/autopoint.diff'.
>     autopoint: *** Stop.
>     autoreconf: autopoint failed with exit status: 1

Did you see the file README-alpha in the git repository?  It explains
how to bootstrap gsasl.  Briefly, you should type 'make bootstrap'
instead of running autoreconf manually.

> I also see that the INSTALL file is missing.

It is generated by autoreconf.

/Simon