Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen wrote: > > Yes. The shell-based implementation does not receive all bug-fixes and > > improvements any more, and is deprecated. > > Thanks. Shouldn't the Python-based one be the default, then? An > out-of-the-box checkout of gnulib seems to run the shell-based one.
Either you have the environment variable GNULIB_TOOL_IMPL set. Unset it. It is not documented, and its purpose is fulfilled. Or you should have gotten a warning: gnulib-tool: warning: python3 not found or too old, using the slow shell-based implementation Bruno