Hi Pádraig, On 6 Oct 2011, at 14:58, Pádraig Brady wrote: > Thanks for the improvements.
You're most welcome! > We're about to do a coreutils release, so I'm thinking > these changes might go in after that > so we can test thoroughly. Yes, that would be safest, I think. The coreutils bootstrap is more complex than most, and deserves some extra care. > A few comments on the new bootstrap.conf > > You seem to have synced against an old version of buildreq > which didn't have autotools or gettext listed. > But that old version also had autopoint which you dropped? That's deliberate: On 6 Oct 2011, at 07:18, Gary V. Vaughan wrote: > The buildreq variable is a table that now also includes a column for the > homepage of > any requirements so that the error message can inform the user where to fetch > any > missing prerequisites. > > Note also that autoconf, automake, libtool and gettext are added > automagically as long > as they are referenced in configure.ac, so they are not listed manually. If > you run > bootstrap with the verbose option, you can see them being detected and added. Mind you, autopoint and gettext are synonymous, right? If not, only the gettext-0.18.1 check is made automatically, and I need to figure out the right way to also check for autopoint. The following, not so deliberate, thanks for the catch :) > s/zile_cleanup_changelog/coretuils_cleanup_changelog/ Cheers, -- Gary V. Vaughan (gary AT gnu DOT org)
