Bruno Haible <br...@clisp.org> writes: > Hi Simon, > >> The reason is top/maint.mk has >> >> # You can override this variable in cfg.mk if your gnulib submodule lives >> # in a different location. >> gnulib_dir ?= $(srcdir)/gnulib >> >> and that directory doesn't exist if bootstrap used $GNULIB_SRCDIR. > > Instead of relying on an environment variable, I would find it more reliable > to rely on the contents of the '.gitmodules' files. Like top/gitsub.sh does > it.
See the beginning of my e-mail:
Hi! I've noticed in a couple of projects that use bootstrap, without a
^^^^^^^^^
gnulib git submodule, and where $GNULIB_SRCDIR is set during bootstrap,
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
that syntax-check will print some spurious errors like this:
So this is for projects that do not have a git submodule. There is no
requirement to use git submodules for bootstrap or gnulib-tool, is
there? My preference is that git submodule is a pain. Lately I made a
pre-release for GNU InetUtils that has been using bootstrap for years
without a git submodule. Several other projects are using gnulib in
various ways without git submodules.
/Simon
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