"Gary V. Vaughan" <g...@gnu.org> writes: > Hi Simon, > > On 11 Jan 2012, at 20:57, Simon Josefsson wrote: >> [[...]] for some reason, my projects >> often follow a pattern where they need to have multiple gnulib >> instances. Last time I looked, bootstrap couldn't handle this, can >> yours? > > Yes it can. > > Actually another part of the (many) reason(s) I rewrote the thing > from scratch is that I needed two sets of gnulib files in the > master branch of GNU M4 - one set for libm4.la for the module api > runtime, and things like gnu-getopt and version-etc (IIRC) in the > main M4 binary. I think this setup is a fairly common requirement > for any project that installs libraries and a binary or two, so I > was rather surprised at how difficult it was to tease that functionality > out of the gnulib bootstrap.
I agree. This is precisely the setup I have in more than 5 projects that uses gnulib. > I haven't yet updated the M4 bootstrap script to use my rewrite (it > still uses the bespoke script the Eric and I wrote), so I can't point > you at a direct example, but the extension mechanism is very straight > forward and easy to understand from the copious comments; and I have > posted bootstrap.conf updates to adopt my rewrite into several projects > here on the list and to my github account to show how straight forward > extending it is: a simple matter of writing a hook function or two. > > If you decide to go ahead and try my bootstrap script, and get stuck > anywhere, I'd be happy to help write the bootstrap.conf parts for you > since I can also use them to move M4 master to my saner script. > > If you decide to go ahead and try my bootstrap script, and finish the > multi-gnulib instance hook function without any help, please ping > me afterwards if you don't mind me adopting it for M4 too :) Thank you. Could you point me towards some project that uses the latest version of your script? I couldn't find a link in this thread. Alas, I don't have alot of time to work on this, but I'd like to take an early look to see if there is something I could comment on early... /Simon
