Hi Akim,
I wrote:
> I have an old bison checkout, without modifications. Now updated it
> using "git pull", then ran
> $ ./bootstrap
>
> The run ends with
>
> Don't forget to
> - "include gnulib.mk" from within "lib/Makefile.am",
> - add "gnulib-po/Makefile.in" to AC_CONFIG_FILES in ./configure.ac,
> - mention "gnulib-po" in SUBDIRS in Makefile.am,
> - mention "-I m4" in ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS in Makefile.am,
> - mention "m4/gnulib-cache.m4" in EXTRA_DIST in Makefile.am,
> - invoke gl_EARLY in ./configure.ac, right after AC_PROG_CC_STDC,
> - invoke gl_INIT in ./configure.ac.
> prefix=lib/
> ./bootstrap: some git submodules are not initialized. Run 'git submodule
> init' and bootstrap again.
>
> So I do this:
>
> $ git submodule init
> $ ./bootstrap
> ...
> ./bootstrap: some git submodules are not initialized. Run 'git submodule
> init' and bootstrap again.
> $ echo $?
> 1
> $ git status
> On branch master
> Your branch is up-to-date with 'origin/master'.
> nothing to commit, working directory clean
> $ git submodule
> d279bc6d9f9323e19ad8c32b6d12ff96dfb0f5ba gnulib (v0.1-3322-gd279bc6)
> -babc8660d5a7561ed7e99e09aeabffaccfe06d6d submodules/autoconf
More details:
$ git -C submodule/autoconf status
fatal: Cannot change to 'submodule/autoconf': No such file or directory
$ cat .gitmodules
[submodule "gnulib"]
path = gnulib
url = git://git.savannah.gnu.org/gnulib.git
[submodule "submodules/autoconf"]
path = submodules/autoconf
url = git://git.sv.gnu.org/autoconf.git
$ ls -l submodules
total 4
drwxr-xr-x 2 bruno bruno 4096 Apr 4 2017 autoconf
$ git -C submodules/autoconf status
On branch master
Your branch is up-to-date with 'origin/master'.
nothing to commit, working directory clean
$ git -C gnulib status
HEAD detached at d279bc6
nothing to commit, working directory clean
To reproduce the issue, you find a copy of the checkout in
https://www.dropbox.com/s/ufhd3cuqxmtti4s/bison-broken-checkout.tar.xz
(30 MB).
Bruno
