Hi everybody,
a month ago I was still working on an older OS X 10.4 system and tried
to compile recent sources of GNU Octave which now uses the bootstrap
file. I failed with a local copy of gnulib (I used the option
--gnulib-srcdir=<path>) because I didn't have any of the tools gsha1sum,
sha1sum etc. We started a discussion about it here
http://old.nabble.com/bootstrap%2C-sha1sum%2C-gsha1sum-and-such-things--to26791930.html
No my suggestion to the GNU Octave project was to comment out the line
find_tool SHA1SUM sha1sum gsha1sum
which of course is not the best solution. In our discussion we found out
that the best solution might be to check for the tools right before they
are really used for the first time - if given the option
--gnulib-srcdir=<path> none of these tools should be needed, right? Is
it possible that you make such a change please?
Meanwhile I personally changed to OS X 10.6 and must say now, that we
have such a tool which is called "shasum" and is part of the OS itself at
MyMac$ which shasum
/usr/bin/shasum
Maybe this should be added to the list of the find_tool line.
Thank you very much
Thomas
