Follow-up Comment #12, bug #65800 (group groff): At 2025-03-27T21:55:04-0400, Collin Funk wrote: > Follow-up Comment #11, bug #65800 (group groff): >> Collin, any word on this? We haven't heard from you since July. > > Hi Branden, sorry I completely forgot about it...
No worries. Thanks for following up so fast (once reminded). :) > Regarding the .gitignore issue, I no longer see /build-aux/ being > added. > > $ ./bootstrap > $ git diff .gitignore > > Shows nothing. > > Regarding the messages like: > > GEN lib/alloca.h > /bin/mv: overwrite 'lib/alloca.h'? y > > It looks like "$HOME"/bin is in Dave's "$PATH" so 'mv' calls a script > with: > > /bin/mv -i "$@" > > Gnulib uses 'mv' to generate headers to avoid 'sed -i' which is not > portable. If this script is executed in your path after you re-run > './bootstrap && ./configure && make', I would expect to see those > prompts. This is because make sees '*.in.h' files that are newer than > the '*.h' files that depend on them. > > Regarding /build-aux vs. /build-aux/, the decision seems the be > purposeful. Here is the relevant commit in Gnulib [1]. Yeah, we do the same sort of thing. https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/groff.git/tree/.gitignore > Let me know if I missed anything. As far as I can tell, you haven't. > [1] > https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gnulib.git/commit/?id=d084ae099b710810cfd039e5985f2351b2b579eb Dave, are you still having problems like that in comment #0? Regards, Branden _______________________________________________________ Reply to this item at: <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?65800> _______________________________________________ Message sent via Savannah https://savannah.gnu.org/
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