Re: How to build libtool from git sources properly?

[Bruce Korb]

On 05/18/16 14:41, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> On Wed, 18 May 2016, Igor Zhbanov wrote:
> > > run `./bootstrap`
> > > -mike
> >
> > It doesn't work on a PC without git or without network connection
> > because it needs to clone gnulib (although there is no gnulib folder
> > in libtool-2.4.6.tar.gz. But this is probably another story.
>
> This is very unfortunate.  I am not sure if it would work if you cloned
> gnulib on another computer and copied the gnulib folder into place since
> it may still make subsequent git accesses.

It sounds to me like Igor wants/needs the release tarball.
Pulling from GIT and building is a maintainer problem.
If you are going to help maintain it, you need access to
maintainer stuff:  GIT, gnulib, the internet, etc.
It's "by design".