On Tue, Dec 27, 2022 at 11:15 AM Paul Eggert <egg...@cs.ucla.edu> wrote: ... > To make this easier I changed gnulib/build-aux/bootstrap so that it > doesn't need to replace itself. Instead, it has options --pull and > --gen, so that './bootstrap --pull' is equivalent to librarified > ./autopull.sh and './bootstrap --gen' is equivalent to librarified > ./autogen.sh. These new options work regardless of whether one uses the > standalone or the librarified bootstrap, and the standalone bootstrap > need not replace itself when it runs. > > I propagated this into gzip by installing the attached patch, the only > creative part of which is its README-hacking change. The rest simply > syncs from Gnulib, using the standalone bootstrap instead of the > librarified one. > > Assuming this sort of thing works out, I'd like to do something similar > with grep, diffutils, etc.
Thank you for making it easier to integrate Bruno's improved bootstrap functionality.
