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Summary: bootstrap oddity: .gitignore discrepancy
Group: GNU roff
Submitter: barx
Submitted: Mon 27 May 2024 07:54:09 PM CDT
Category: Core
Severity: 2 - Minor
Item Group: Build/Installation
Status: None
Privacy: Public
Assigned to: None
Open/Closed: Open
Discussion Lock: Any
Planned Release: None
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Date: Mon 27 May 2024 07:54:09 PM CDT By: Dave <barx>
I haven't built a groff since 1.23. When I did so recently
(http://lists.gnu.org/r/groff/2024-05/msg00042.html), the first step produced
a query I hadn't seen in a groff build before.
$ ./bootstrap
/bin/mv: overwrite '.gitignore'?
I said "y" to this, and the result was that the top-level .gitignore file
gained a "/build-aux" line at the top, before the first comment. The line
"/build-aux/" (with the trailing slash), already in the file in the "artifacts
expected in a clean tree" section, remained unaltered, so "/build-aux" now
appears twice, once with the trailing slash and once without.
This has no effect I could discern on the rest of the bootstrap or build. I
don't know whether it constitutes a bug, but it seems weird for the bootstrap
script to require user input to continue, especially devoid of any context
about the significance of the decision, or even which of the tree's many
.gitignore files it refers to.
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